The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

To love all ages yield surrender

We must learn from our struggles.

So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you.