Applause: the echo of a prejudice.

One death apiece is plenty.

The best thing in life is having someone to share it with.

The craving for recognition is every artist’s Achilles heel.

Dream as much as you like, but the world is not a dream.

Relax and be free. You don’t have to prove anything.

Change is always trivial compared to what doesn’t change.

There is only one side to be on-the side of life

Man is the only creature for whom being alive isn’t enough.

To be saved is to believe in one’s own courage.

We work best when we’re unaware of working

Memory is weak, imagination strong.

Love hurts because we think that’s what love is.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

People don’t think when they’re enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

Some stories end in despair, some begin there

A blind man sees with his cane, like all the rest of us.

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.

What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.

Bring a song with you into the darkness.

When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

Wrapped up in our thoughts we can’t hear love or beauty’s song.

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we’re all part of the conversation.

Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.

Magic is not what magicians can do, but what they can’t do.

It’s the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

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!

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.