I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.

We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

But memory is less disposed to compromise

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

Why, because an author has more rights than ordinary people, as everybody knows. People will stand much more from him.

...the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world.

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.