The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

She felt like a creature born to reside on the bottom of the ocean floor, dark and flat and half-blind, slowly rising through the icy water to the glittering light above.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

How could I insist on equality when I was unwilling to do what life demanded to be equal?

Hope is a mistake. If you cant fix what's broken, you will go insane.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.

Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.