The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home. They're like people on a stage playing somebody else. They play that they're important, and they want you to meet their importance, not themselves.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
We all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to understand that we're not really worried about anything.
I sometimes wonder, whether, in the still, sleepless hours of the night, the consciences of these professional gossips do not stalk them.
I always was a rebel, but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.
A man is a lonely thing.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.