Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

In a relationship, it's important to make each other laugh. To give each other freedom, support each other and be proud of each other.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

My Christian faith is my backbone

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

I've never been particularly maternal.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.