Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having a good time, they're excited and enjoying the process, then I think it's wrong to discriminate.

I feel so grateful to my mother and father for a happy childhood. There are things I now understand that they were able to give me that are very special.