Look up at the moon; don’t think about yourself.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

The law is that the law will be broken.

cynicism springs from disappointments in love.

Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.

Cynicism-the pus from a wound.

The pieces of a puzzle aren’t together or apart.

Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.

Professors stare down from their podiums; that’s their insecurity.

Where the truth is censored, the truth grows claws.

All poets are religious poets.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

Art appears when the artist disappears.

We are alive and in the world and that is beautiful and everything.

We are born free, but are taught to obey orders.

The sea answers only to the sea.

There is no deeper reality. The water at the bottom is the same as the water at the top.

Humanity’s favorite pasttime: pretending to know what it doesn’t know.

What one does is always worth more than words.

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.

The artist’s duty is to defend the exceptional: the imagination.

Is hell the way to heaven? I think it’s the way to hell.

Hate’s ultimate victory is to make us dependent on it.

The memories we’re fondest of are not always our own

Home’s a place to come back to, not a place to stay.

To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

Facts are only facts until something better comes along.

Time can’t be found, only lost.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Happiness: the feeling of being alive.

Writing is discovering what you don’t know.

Once you master starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

Make your life beautiful, you’re the only one who can.

The wild ivy grows wherever it pleases.

A long leash is not freedom.

Trust opens the door that pain had sealed shut.

A microbe is more deadly than a minotaur

Two kinds of writers. One treats the world as if it were fiction; the other treats fiction as if it were the world.

Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life.

I don’t believe in Doubt.

Unless I speak, you won’t see me.

Meddling is the evil, not indifference.

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

Salt water is and isn’t the ocean.

Thoughts are phantoms. And when you fight with phantoms they always win.

When one loves willingly, there is no sacrifice.

Believing in yourself is the best poetry.

Those who refuse to drink are always thirsty.