“There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad...”

“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”

“Its not that we have to quit this life one day, but its how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the...”

“Rest in Peace? Why that phrase? Thats the most ridiculous phrase Ive ever heard! You die, and they say Rest in Peace! Why would one need to rest when theyre dead?! I spent thousands of years of wor...”

“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun... let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus... Aphrodite to the exte...”

“Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homers 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.”

“I believe that God gives you hopes and dreams in a size that's too large, so you have something to grow into.”

“Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.”

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, andin spite of True Romance magazineswe shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do no...”

“I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”

“Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant”

“I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our solitude and extinguishes our radiance: Nothing! I believe that that word does not point to our insi...”

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vas...”