Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

Where are you taking me?” Abby asked from the passenger seat of the pickup.

Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue.

If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person.

There is no gambling like politics.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.

In school, I was an underachiever.

We are star dust in the highest exalted way, called by the universe, reaching out to the universe