When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

May your life be a fountain of love and kindness to fill the world with joy.

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. Its using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

I've struggled with money when I could have had a little more if I'd just taken the damn job.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.