To know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.

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.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

Better to be able to love than to be loveable.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

The reason I don't want anyone to control me is not because I want to be in control. I don't want anyone to control me because I don't want anyone to control anyone.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

You need to find a way to propel this creativity to the masses. People get brainwashed and they start to forget what's good.

One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.