With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

My past is everything I failed to be.

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I

At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other.

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.

Dare to be more than ordinary... Dare to be extraordinary.

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.