News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Don't let other people's limitations limit you. Go for what you really want ... You just might get it!

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

We are oceans apart. My mother had a very difficult life.

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs.

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.