Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

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

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Don't be concerned others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.