A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.