One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

All that harms labor is treason to America.

I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer.

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.