Words worth keeping

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!

I just want to be wonderful.