"A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be."

"My wants are so simple I don't even know what they are."

"Memories are never as true as the things one forgets."

"Nihilism is a subject for comedy."

"The game of love is complicated, but love is not complicated."

"A fool who cursed the sun was surprised to see it still shining."

"In spring, the snow must go; in fall, the leaves can't stay."

"Children, like God, see only our actions."

"The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old."

"If you follow the rules, it's your own fault."

"To keep a warm heart in a cold world is the real victory."

"Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd."

"Flowers are the music of the earth."

"What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be."

"My advice to you is to dance while you still can."

"Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome, stupidity is much harder."

"Accidents are built into the road."

"From one dog all the dogs bark."

"It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery."

"The examined life: nothing is more futile or counterproductive. The active, joyous, spontaneous life: that is what one should aim for."

"Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition."

"Only kind people seem really human."

"Political revolutions never liberate anyone, they are always reactionary."

"You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you."

"Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life."

"Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today."

"Joy is wisdom I trust."

"Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions."

"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."

"In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real."

"Open your eyes and breathe deeply. Wisdom is in the air."

"A cloud is more real than all my thoughts."

"The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words."

"Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done."

"What we invent, we become."

"There are 200,000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you."

"There are no simple solutions to imaginary problems."

"Be a poet in action as well as in words."

"Sing through your grief. Don't let your thoughts weigh you down."

"The last goose in the column is flying just as high."

"The world we see is beyond our understanding but not beyond our love."

"How often have our own tears blinded us to the tears of others."

"Seize the day, then let it go."

"You get up each morning and do what you can to survive. Nothing else is true, and nothing else matters."

"If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me."

"Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses."

"Geniuses are a dime a dozen. The truly tolerant are rare."

"When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause."

"One shouldn't be labelled a cynic just because one refuses to believe in fairy tales."

"Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone."