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

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea.

A champion is someone who has overcome a lot of fear.

Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances.

The beauty of this day doesn’t depend on its lasting forever.

We need sentiment and skepticism. Sentiment to be happy; skepticism to be free.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

You can’t eliminate the dust, only move it somewhere else.

Nothing else is needed to be a complete human being than to have been born a human being

What great literature does best is to show us those moments which make life worth living.

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Almost all our cares are imaginary. We think them into existence.

Thoughts come out of nowhere like everything else.

Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.

Happiness doesn’t think, it is.

No story is ever the whole story.

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

Intuition often sees where science is blind.

You can feed a skeptic the party line but you can’t make him swallow it.

No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.

Wonder, like life, ignores logic.

It’s fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

We know birth and we know death; the mystery is everything in-between.

Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

Art should be a great hallelujah to life.

A beautiful sentence and a beautiful sunset derive from the same source.

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.

An avalanche doesn’t look back at the damage it causes.

Sometimes out of sheer perversion reality conforms to my wishes.

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

Words have to make sense; facts don’t. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

Thirst is a language even the grass understands.

My life is my book, but I can’t read it.

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you.

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

Writing begins as a solitary obsession and ends up as communication.

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

When the wings are too heavy, the bird can’t fly.

The past lives through us. We are its legacy.

The time you absolutely have to get off your ass and act is when action seems futile

Genius is the seed slowly germinating in the ground.

Things put in the wrong place have found a new place.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

Morning will come, it has no choice.

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.

Cities are built out of poet’s dreams.

We must act to free our minds, not think.