I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

Genius is nothing more than an extraordinary manifestation of the body.

Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

The word of God is a fountain of life.

This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.

The best is the enemy of good.

After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind’s eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.