Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

We can transform our lives by renewal of our mind.

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft.

I should stitch my mouth shut. Honesty is a compulsion that’s damned me more than once. But I just can’t hold it in anymore. The words build and explode out of me like an uncontainable sneeze.

I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.