You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

[T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]

we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.

All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought.

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.