No one can crave what truly harms him.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. - C'est l'origami du cœur)

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I can assure you that next to my bed, there is always a copy of the Dharmapada which I read from every night.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.

Everything is soul and flowering.