That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.

She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane.

Always let people see a reflection of God in you

Andalways embrace things, people earthsky stars, as I do, freely and withthe appropriate sense of space.

Doubt isn't original.

I do so hate to leave this world.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.