People perish. Books are immortal.

And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.

The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.

Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

"Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost." "And old men?" "Of what they have not found."

Kids are intimidated by the way science and technology is presented. It's made, frankly, quite boring and it becomes part of a curriculum that chases particularly women and minorities away.

I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I love and can't see otherwise.

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

What inspired me as a child is the same thing that inspires me now: being nice. I always try to one up everybody with verses and be lyrical and just stand for the art.

And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Life by the yard is hard; by the inch it's a cinch. Decisions Determine Destiny.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.