"Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have."

"Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly."

"The earth keeps turning but it never says why."

"No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night."

"What is deeply felt is never lost."

"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

"We owe it to the dead to dance on their graves."

"Boredom is peace misunderstood."

"Be kind. Be happy. Be free."

"You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose."

"Be independent, and do what you will."

"To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing."

"The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there."

"The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling."

"A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning."

"Everything rusts, rots, crumbles, vanishes. The infinite will just take a little bit longer."

"If the light's not in you, you're in the dark."

"What good is a song that doesn't break your heart?"

"The way to my heart is through your heart."

"One can be a pessimist in thought but not in action."

"When you stop seeing your weaknesses as weaknesses you will overcome them."

"The way to live well is to feel intensely."

"It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things."

"Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth."

"Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships."

"Nothing is more seductive than nothing."

"To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life."

"We need places to scream and run wild as well as places to be quiet."

"A chain grows weaker with each new link."

"A poet is a feeling, sentient being, not a word machine."

"Children remind us that we're all children."

"The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more."

"Better to stay home than travel in a hurry."

"To know oneself means above all to know what one likes."

"No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens."

"There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things."

"It's better to do things you like than to think about what you don't like."

"The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free."

"Sometimes being indifferent solves everything."

"I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing."

"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

"It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them."

"Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look."

"Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise."

"Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it."

"There is no "the way things are." Every day is different, and you live it differently."

"Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you."

"Thirst is a language even the grass understands."

"Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone."

"Everything about sex and freedom interests me."