"The man who doesn't howl at the moon when his mother dies is no man at all."

"How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?"

"Life corrects the errors of logic."

"Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness."

"Never have a plan, it'll just get in your way."

"We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief."

"All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed."

"Frailty, thy name is human!"

"A goal ensures progress. But one gets much further without a goal."

"Sometimes just breathing is enough."

"There is no sweeter pleasure than wandering aimlessly about."

"Truth is an outlaw in every country."

"Revenge is starting a fire you can't control."

"One death apiece is plenty."

"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

"Even the faded flower denies nothingness."

"More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea."

"The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing."

"Being different is not a sin, but intolerance is."

"A heart grows flat and stale from too much thinking."

"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."

"Fiction: a game of pretend."

"Writing is talking to yourself-with the hope of being overheard."

"It's not the wound that teaches, but the healing."

"All writers are exiles: some by circumstance, some by choice."

"Dreams were the first movies."

"Nothing is so deceiving as knowledge."

"Life only wants us to be happy. We impose these burdens on ourselves."

"Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal."

"The great novels are deterrents. A Merck's manual on how not to live."

"A love that requires constant attention is a doomed love."

"If you can abuse your power you have too much."

"Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness."

"No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience."

"People shouldn't question their desires. They should do what they want."

"The unsaid rules every conversation."

"Where our attention goes, our mind and body go, too."

"Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality."

"A poem is an event, like a wedding or birth."

"Music- a country one can inhabit only in music."

"Never hold a belief longer than you can hold your breath."

"We love those to whom we can tell our story."

"Wisdom is knowing when you have enough."

"Society demands not conformity, but the appearance of conformity. That's the reason for hypocrisy."

"To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working."

"The real rain dance is when the rain dances."

"The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain."

"One should show one's scars, not hide them."

"There is no difference between being an artist and being in love."

"We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone."