He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

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

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others