Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

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'.

Sometimes wisdom dictates that you take a few steps backwards to be able to go much further

We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

Love makes us do wicked things.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.