Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

Emperors are vain and useless things.

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are.

We didn't do much different against LeBron. We were just more active and more competitive.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.