It is better to pay attention than to have ideas about things.

We are the mountains we must cross.

Myth is ancient science; science is modern myth.

Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost.

Seize the day, then let it go.

Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.

The gold you have to dig for is not the real gold.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown.

Build your castle of dreams but don’t live in it.

Drink freely the wine life offers you and don’t worry how much you spill.

We are always changing, always different, and yet strangely and recognizably always the same.

Love people, not places. Places don’t miss you when you’re gone.

In my mind I lead a phantom’s life. My neighbor makes me real.

A story has to break your heart or it’s not worth telling.

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath.

All talk is small talk.

The road to hell is paved with careful planning.

What doesn’t kill us makes a good story.

The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.

The currents of life run deeper than thought.

First you have to survive adolescence; then your education. Finally, yourself.

Dreams were the first movies.

Nothing saddens me more than seeing how quickly the dog grows used to its leash.

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Flowers are the music of the earth.

Writing is like life: it goes on.

Love, and love alone, drives out fear.

Art should be sublime and a little silly.

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

It’s not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred.

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

Real dishes break. That’s how you know they’re real.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Fighting doesn’t hurt until you stop.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.

Love is the desire for another’s happiness.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they’d never blossom.

Why think when you can sing?

The woods are full of poison berries but you don’t have to eat them.

What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow.

Play your music so the earth can dance.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

We’re all on different paths but headed in the same direction.

Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic.

Some people have no talent but we can’t all be that lucky.

A breath, to keep one going, must be one’s own.