Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.

How different every hour is from the one before!

In the same way mannequins resemble people, images resemble life.

Some things are too strange to believe, but nothing is too strange to have happened.

There is no fact that is not at least part fiction.

There is more to writing than playing with words.

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

Thought is a dead end; language is a merry-go-round.

Nobody wants to be nothing. But that’s the greatest thing in the world to be.

True wealth: a life rich in experience.

Maybe there is no justice, only different degrees of injustice.

All thoughts are beautiful when they’re free.

Optimists think badly, but live well.

It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about.

The void can only be filled with love.

The only truths that last are the truths of the heart.

Eternity: the length of a life.

Luck is everything in love, though we hate to admit it.

Stop comparing yourself to others and you’ll be happy.

Inspiration is simply doing whatever it is you want to do.

Culture is local; art, universal.

Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.

When a thing becomes indispensable it’s time to give it up.

Love is the body’s warmth; sex, its heat.

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

Take a wrong turn. Get lost in something you love.

You can’t dissect a joy without killing it.

Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars.

When people don’t do what they want, they don’t know what to do.

I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me.

Nothing is a problem unless you think it is.

Even when one sleeps one is not wasting one’s time.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.

Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.

History is conjecture raised to the level of an art.

The truest philosophy is the one that raises the most doubts.

Only a poet can translate for the dead.

What does introspection mean? It means you’re looking in the wrong direction.

The first kiss and the first glass of wine are the best.

If you’re scared to be alone, you are alone.

Mediocrity-the artist’s hell.

The tragedy of every religion is that it needs a church to survive.

Beware of what you teach your children in the womb.

Some canaries love their cages, they even call them home.

I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.

Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus.

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers.

Words are the great temptation.