Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible - what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.

We are stuck with not knowing what our actions will actually lead to.

When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist.

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")