The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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'.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

I've listened to Preachers, I've listened to fools. I've worshipped the dropouts, who've made their own rules.

whoever said progress was a positive thing has never been to Florida or California.

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.