I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. Thats my nature.

To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that cant get through the mesh to bite you.

Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

I dont call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I dont.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature.

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.

When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.