All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

Went to bed with a dream.Woke up with a purpose.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

Our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.