Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Society becomes how you behave.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

CNTRL is about letting people know that not everyone fits under the 'EDM' umbrella; not creatively or even personally.

All photographs are self-portraits.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

I have to say that I thought search-and-rescue duties over Snowdonia were physically and mentally demanding, but looking after a 3-week-old baby is up there!

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.