Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

It Is What It Is

..forever daydreaming of a kiss so sweet, angels weep..

Coffee never used to keep me up at night, now it does.

Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.

I don't think I have ever tried to create things to encourage people to hurt others, or themselves.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.