“Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.”

I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

One illusion is as good as another.

I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones.

She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.

There’s nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.

I can’t read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Other people’s ideas of us are dependent largely on what they’ve hoped for.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow – So Growl By doing what is right.

Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.

Father said conflict develops the character

Youth doesn’t need friends — it only needs crowds.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood – or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure another chance in life.

It is time we recognized that belief is not a private matter; it has never been merely private. In fact, beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potential.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

Never confuse activity with action.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

The decisions that you make and the actions that you take upon the earth are the means by which you evolve.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You receive from the world what you give to the world.