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.

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

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?

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.

Always think in circles to get your ideas around

Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire.

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.

The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians

Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental, and stale.

First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.