Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Music is the softest cushion in the world.

Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.

Every obstacle is meant to be temporary

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

Life is the result of all your choices.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.

You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.