I can resist everything except temptation.

I contemplate in my heart the nonfearful divinity of shining darkness.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My god, do you learn.

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You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.

"There are too many people, and too few human beings."

I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and infinite.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.