We are born free, but we’re taught to obey orders.

What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.

All children are born rebels and explorers until they’re taught to sit still and obey.

If you have the experience, why do you need the words?

Listen when the sirens sing. How else will you learn?

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about

Love is suffering only when one refuses to love.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

You begin with other people’s memories and end up with your own.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

If you follow the rules, it’s your own fault.

The sun is my wine.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

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.

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.

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.