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.

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.

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!

Children, like God, see only our actions.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.

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.

Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is.

One can be a pessimist in thought, but not in action.

Accidents are built into the road.

The cruelest countries have the most laws.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

The love of life begins with the love of one person.

What is is plenty, but more is never enough.

Education is the exchange of one set of prejudices for another.

Never hesitate to tell the truth as you see it.