All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

The main thing is to know something and to say it.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Turn a bad past into a good future.

I want to be somebody when I grow up. Somebody with grown-up dreams and screams for these dreams to be crossover dreams into reality.

Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

Very important functions can be performed very wastefully and often are.

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

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.