There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

I’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

Just because you are going to Heaven doesn't mean you have Heaven established in you. Success is Heaven on earth.

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

To read without writing is to sleep.

There's so much excitement around the Phish tours, and if it stopped feeling that way, it would ruin everything we've done for seventeen years.

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it