Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.

It is something that I always found quite unfair: wondering why the Jews never rebelled when deported.

You must disobey an order, if the order is unfair, or inhuman. Disobedience is not something we are being taught.

Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

I was convinced that adults would realize more what they are capable of doing if it's shown through children's eyes.

Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.Never surrender to cynicism, even if you suspect it would get the critics on your side.

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere.

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.

I am rooted, but I flow.