I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

The laws of this world are for children.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

The greatness of one's mind can only be activated when one learns to unlock the doors to one's opportunities and possibilities with it.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Whatever Yasu loves, I love too. That's the secret of love.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

The women I liked when I was growing up, as a little boy, were Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, because they had these curvaceous figures, and they were erotic to me.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.