Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas

The fire alarm is not the fire.

If you can abuse your power you have too much.

Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me.

What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Our sins are sins of language.

All lovers meet and love by chance.

It’s the children who never played with fire that get burnt.

The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.

Life and love are never what you think they are.

The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists.

If loving comes easy, nothing else seems hard.

An echo has no voice of its own.

Good conversation is the equivalent of shared emotion.

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose.

The happy-go-lucky have the best luck.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

Emotion is the poetry of life.

I owe my last breath to death but not one breath more.

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

The problem is not religion but the void that creates religions.

Hypocrisy is the homage freedom pays to social convention.

We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet.

Lies have always been easier to invent than reality.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

Words can’t save you, but they can give you courage.

Don’t let the worries of this foolish world destroy your joy in living.

A chain grows weaker with each new link.

Destiny exists only in retrospect.

Noise is democratic; silence, aritocratic

Time spent thinking about life is better spent enjoying it.

Life’s an old story. we all know how it ends.

Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.

Intuition: the feeling one knows something when one knows nothing.

It is easier to debunk a thousand myths than to write one true sentence.

Summer, like a kiss, trembles when it first arrives.

Every line is the perfect length if you don’t measure it.

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

The greatest wisdom is indistinguishable from the greatest folly.

The hard thing isn’t getting what you want, it’s knowing what you want.

There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one’s individuality.

It is not knowledge that makes an artist

Beautiful untrue things are even more beautiful when they’re true.

Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different

I’m on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

When people are facing real hardships in their lives, they have no time to invent imaginary ones.

Children remind us that we’re all children.

Every writer knows that words are the enemy.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.