Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

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 try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

one could drown in irrelevance.

Fear is always a good motivator.

The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.

I have never made a movie that's attracted a 14-year-old boy.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.