Moderation is an attempt to live within one’s emotional means.

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.

Wars have always been easier to fight than explain.

We’re all drowning, but don’t say it out loud.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

You can’t dissect a dream without killing it.

I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn.

Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.

You can’t know people, only their names.

Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.

It’s no use organizing the mice if the cat doesn’t agree.

Joy is wisdom I trust.

Most of our troubles are imaginary. We think them into existence.

We choose a path, but not what’s on it.

Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

I’m for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism.

We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find.

The perfect plan is to have none.

The poet’s task is to give every echo a voice.

The truth is what you live through while you’re looking for the truth.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one’s own life.

If you’re afraid to be alone, you are alone.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

You can spit on a rose, but it’s still a rose.

The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.

The real rain dance is when the rain dances.

When a head and a wall collide, it’s never the wall that breaks.

Technology is not the problem, nor is religion the problem. We are the problem.

The plant that’s been uprooted has only courage to hold it up.

Error is the school we learn in.

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

The flea that doubts doesn’t jump nearly as high

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

Self-consciousness is hell.

Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Be yourself, or whatever self you’d like to be.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

If I didn’t laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.

The order you seek is the chaos you feel.

I don’t want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

We don’t know why anything happens or why anything is.

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.