The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

All success comes through other people.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Something worth doing is something worth putting your heart into.