Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

The softest thing I've ever heard are the wind chimes in my backyard. They are soft and cool and mellow.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.

We’re going to be as loyal to our fans as they are to us.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.