Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.

She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

...for nothing is more boring than being forced to play.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Usually I say I have no imagination.

My term ends in June 2004 and I have no intention to change that.

No, that's not true. I didn't see his place that much, but he's a good kid and I had fun playing with him.

To teach is part of the very fabric of learning.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.