It’s the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

We work best when we’re unaware of working

Memory is weak, imagination strong.

Love hurts because we think that’s what love is.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

People don’t think when they’re enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

Poetry is sublime nonsense.

It’s always the ‘others’ who are deceived.

It’s indifference that breaks hearts, not love.

Life corrects the errors of logic.

We expect miracles from love but love has only itself to give.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

Bring a song with you into the darkness.

When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

Freedom is what we do; fate is what happens to us.

A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot.

Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes.

Fiction isn’t truer than life: it just makes a better story.

How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?

To believe the ridiculous requires the strictest logic.

We think in one language and feel in another.

In the morning I don’t want to know where I’ll be in the afternoon.

Every writer knows that ideas are the enemy.

Our talents don’t define us any more than our faults.

Water flows because it’s willing.

A philosophy must be livable; it can’t just be ideas.

When we are bored it is always with ourselves we are bored.

You don’t know how to live. You live.

Better to love for no reason than have reasons not to love.

California weather is worth all the geniuses in New York.

Be grateful to the gullible heart!

Nothing succeeds like indifference to success.

We don’t know history. We only know what has been written about it.

An artist’s responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can’t be said any other way.

When you’re living, just living, dreams come true you never knew you had.

Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

Peace is the first condition of joy.

Humanity will never truly evolve until personal responsibility becomes the norm.

Truthfulness requires humility as well as courage.

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.

The first thing that happens when you’re happy is you start forgiving everyone.

Let a kind word warm you when your thoughts turn cold

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.