It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge… you can’t hear him talk.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The people in my songs are all me.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Laws are silent in time of war.