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.

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.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

We know death; it’s life we don’t know.

Art is the truth of the imagination.

Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Beauty is the desire for beauty.

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.

Time is the school we learn in.

We need movement, activity, as much as air and water.

We suffer more from choice than from necessity.

A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself.

Man: an irrational being who imagines himself to be a rational one.

It is possible to know all the facts and still know nothing.

Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself.

There are no rules in love except to love.

All extreme opinions consume themselves.

Don’t stare out the window; run through the fields.

One of the first conditions of happiness is the ability to take pleasure in other people’s happiness.

If the light’s not in you, you’re in the dark.

I don’t believe in the search. I believe in happiness now.

The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.

Sex is natural, but enjoying it’s an art.

Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes.

Never say yes to anything you can’t say no to.

We are changed by the things we try to change.