The true poetic feeling is a feeling of boundless gratitude.
All lovers meet and love by chance.
Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.
There are no higher levels of consciousness, there are only different ways of perceiving things.
A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.
Lovers jump into bed without thinking. It's the only way it can be done.
Art is the product of an imperfect world. In an ideal world, art would not exist.
People on foot, on bikes, in cars, on planes-all chasing freedom.
The Big Dream shattered splinters into a thousand little dreams.
Everything but a life can be replaced.
The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.
The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.
Every leaf before it falls must think itself immortal.
A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.
Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.
Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.
A story has to break your heart or it's not worth telling.