Revenge is starting a fire you can't control.
Accidents are built into the road.
Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.
No one really remembers anything five minutes after it happens.
Philosophers console themselves with explanations.
Let nothing human be considered sacred. Let nothing human be considered divine.
My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.
I still find the moon more amazing than the fact men have walked on it.
Nothing is less like life than our idea of it.
Music is the most abstract of the arts; dance, the most concrete.
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.
Nature is impulsive. To be impulsive is to be fully alive.
It felt so amazing to be alive I could never think of anything else.
The earth keeps turning but it never says why.
Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.
I don't try to explain or justify my actions. I simply do what I do.
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.
The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.
The fish don't need to know why they're in the water.
The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.