Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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'.

I hate being poor.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

People don't always express their inner thoughts to one another; a conversation may be quite trivial, but often the eyes will reveal what a person really thinks or feels.

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.