Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

Writers are as jealous as pigeons.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

Cuz the 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb.

I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.