Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

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.

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.

I don't write music for sissy ears.

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

What we call "willing" is often but an inflation of ourselves, attended by a hardening.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

Black belt in Akihito. (Amanda) Any other time, I'd kiss you for that. (Kyrian)