“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer”

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

“We love the things we love for what they are.”

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”