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

Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.

Freedom begins with respect for the freedom of others.

I’d rather be encouraged by an ant to live than taught to doubt by fifty skeptics.

What happens is always worth more than words.

Children are the poem made flesh.

Write as if Time will erase every word.

Happiness isn’t something one finds, it’s something one creates.

Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language.

It is a weakness to suffer when you don’t have to.

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

Diseased organs get the most attention.

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.