Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
I managed my life to the point that at age 19 I was still in high school. I decided I was too old to be walking down those hallways.
See the good in people and help them.
“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
A subject for a great poet would be god's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
If you're not failing every now and again, It's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
If you've never eaten while crying you don't know what life tastes like.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Everything helped a little bit, at first; but nothing really helped.
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.
I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. by virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
What should young people do with their lives today? many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in english departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.