The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

I love being alone, but find my loneliness uncomfortable.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made … was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

I find beauty in melancholy.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.