What makes you a chaffinch?

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.

There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

I've seen Australia and I've lived on an asteroid and I'd take the asteroid.

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.