The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Until you believe in yourself, it does not matter how much you believe in God

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

Once having said no to Donald Trump, Mitt Romney can't go back and say, I changed my mind, I'm bowing to the pressure from you.

Fiscal discipline begins by leveling with people, by being honest, by paying for all of your proposals.

There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.

Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.