The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

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.

Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

I don't know why people think I'm a Goth - that's a misconception.