In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

What's the point of a revolution without general copulation copulation copulation

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

Some people become fully discouraged in life because of their series of mistakes and failures

It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak.

The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.