The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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'.

If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

Deeply in my heart, do I want to believe that there is that special guy that is for me. Yes, absolutely.

Few actions of consequence in the world have been accomplished without passion.

I think every year you have something to prove.

I remember just lying in the grass, staring at the clouds, wondering where they drifted off to after they floated over Texas.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.