The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

Never complain and never explain.

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.