Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.