They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

The end of desire is the end of sorrow.

No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

I call it [Donald's Trump plan] trumped-up trickle-down, because that's exactly what it would be. That is not how we grow the economy.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.