I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

The reward of a work is to have produced it

Never accept help from a dragon. Dragons do not offer help. They offer fate.

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.

You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

We have got a very short time to turn climate change around otherwise we will all die.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.