We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Keep strong the bond of love.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

Life is an illusion. Don’t forget to enjoy the magnificence of magic.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

We're burnin' daylight!