By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

I dream, therefore I exist.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.

We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.