Publicity is the soul of stupidity, but we must not forget that we live in a stupid universe, so publicity is the engine of our world.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

When you create art, the world has to wait.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

Carrying on as usual carries enormous risks, condemning today's students to a world of constant insecurity and frequent catastrophes.