To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!
The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.
It is the nature of the pig, that if there's nothing to stop her from stepping into abreuvoir - then it will. Nothing will stop bureaucracy from continuing to serve us "good" and protecting us from "evil" - if we'll let them do that.
For me, skinny is just a style of jeans -- not a goal.
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.