“Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability”

“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”

“I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.”

“Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.”

“Stuff your brain with knowledge.”

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”

“I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.”