Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

In principle, I am against principles.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Let us try for once not to be right.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.