There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today?

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

If you can’t be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

I don't lie. I would never stuff my bra because it's going to come off and the truth is going to be revealed. I don't like that padding. I try to be completely - if not brutally - honest.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.

If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.