It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

What made you fall in love with a prostitute?” “I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.