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.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

All my life I used to wonder what I would become when I grew up. Then, about seven years ago, I realized that I was never going to grow up - that growing is an ever ongoing process.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

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

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.