To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.

I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

I would love to spend time with Donald Trump. I would tell him what I think. He would take me out in 30 minutes.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

Dear young people, do not be afraid of making decisive choices in life. Have faith; the Lord will not abandon you!

I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work - or something outside of work.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.