Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Dedicate one's life to truth.

Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.