Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

Abandoning your true self amounts to suicide except that it is less dramatic. Don't commit suicide so that you may appease some folks...

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

The secret of my success is my hairspray.

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.

When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.