Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Be that self which one truly is.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.