Writings like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

Perception of a state is not the state.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

Well, we have theatrical parties. It's not me singing. People like to get up and jam on the piano.

Real wealth of a nation is the people.

The Olympic Snatch is gymnastics with a bar

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

Know thyself; this is the great object.

Remember that a share of stock represents a part of a business and is not just a piece of paper.