Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

Love is the climate of the kingdom

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

If we talk about pure abilities and skills, I believe there should be no reason why women cannot play as well as men.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.