Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If a man wakes up famous he hasn't been sleeping.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

I have the kind of show that reminds you of your problems, and then I talk about other problems you didn't even know you had until tonight.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

If love be treasure, we'll be wondrous rich.