If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

The supreme morality of art is to endure.