I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

A good liar must have a good memory.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.