To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor's wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook.

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.