The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl.

I am a shadow’s shade, a lunatic, perhaps, Of two dark moons.

My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.

I am a moonbeam, free to go whenever I choose.

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget.

Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

A silent room is not an affluent room.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

If you can't stop the bad thoughts from coming to visit, at least you can make fun of them while they're hanging around.

Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown... There's something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it's hard to take him seriously.

Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.