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.

The world will not be saved by poets or poetry.

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

An artist’s work is one long conversation with life.

What makes a life-any life-beautiful is the simple fact of living it.

We always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.

Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls.

A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.

Technology is not the problem. We are the problem.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

What you do to kill time is your real work.

Imaginary diseases are the hardest to cure.

We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

The best advice is what the skylark gives by singing.

A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.

The mystic sees God in everything; the scientist, atoms; the poet, poetry.

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.

Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others.

Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.

Space-we fill it with our dreams.

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don’t chase it when it’s gone.

Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.

An artist’s work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

To extract major truths from minor details is an artist’s job.

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd.

One is free, and at the mercy of everything.

Pain never apologizes.

A consistent outlook is inconsistent with reality.

What we say about ourselves is always a form of fiction.

Confusion is a web of words.

Where there is a strong need to believe it’s incredible what people will believe.

The writer’s job is to free language from the prison of ideas.

Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along.

It’s not given even to the greatest writers to tell someone else’s story.

What we invent, we become

It’s incorrigible but inevitable how one gets used to everyone dying.

Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.

For lack of love one does a million other things.

What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn’t fit?

Philosophy: unsound conclusions based on sound reasoning.

There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems.

Winter gold: the sparrow’s footprints in the snow.

It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.