Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

I’ve met guys all the time that I’m like, Damn, that’s a good-looking guy, you know?

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.