It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Where there is love there is life.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If I get married, I want to be very married.