The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

I try to renew and create something new every time.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.