To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.