The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”)

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

Hope and be happy that all's for the best!

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.