…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.
The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them. That is why they are able to reign over all the mountain streams.