The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

As an artist, motive means opportunity

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

One reason for the tremendous increase in health-care costs in the U.S. is managerial neglect of the "hotel services" by the people who dominate the hospital, such as doctors and nurses.