With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.

All great dreamers have great faith.

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.