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.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

What goes up must come down.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

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

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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.