I started from nothing in Lichtenstein. The country is so small, and the only 'celebrity' type people who are from there are skiers.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

When we realize that words can destroy something good, wonderful, and dear, and that by keeping silent we can avoid causing the least damage or harm, it’s easy to stay silent.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad.

That lovely things exist is a lovely thought.

How uninteresting interesting things can become.

Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something’s missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

White people love playing 'divide & rule'. We should not play their game.

There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

I just love to fight, and regardless of who I'm fighting, I want to be at the top level.

I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.