Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

The time for reasoning is past; now's the time to get steamed up and fight like mad.

Crying has no potential for solving the problems!

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

I want to talk to a nation, not to a select committee.

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

The ocean is made of drops.

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.