I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.

Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle.

Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.