A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior

...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in

I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

The idea that we are going to be able to take our entire society as it currently works and simply change the source of energy and make it sustainable is not actually congruent with reality.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.