I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)
Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts.
Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.
Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.
To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.
It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.
Everything in life is a metaphor.
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.