When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I'm neither Catholic not Protestant. Protestant sounds good but I don't think I am.

Every life has a file, if you will.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.