Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

There's no reason to worryI started brand new story

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Yes the Jews do many foul things and they distort our foreign policy but not everything that goes bad can be blamed on the Jews.