Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.

Let the sunrise of every morning bring you the light of love and joy.

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I'll be a YouTuber for as long as I love it.