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.

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.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

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.

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

Life is the mode of action of proteins.

Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies.

She leaned into my shoulder. "Maybe you don't have to be a Caster to have power." I pushed her hair behind her ear. "Maybe you just have to fall for one.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.