Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

When people have nothing positive or negative to say about you, it means you don't exist

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.

For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.