In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Never underestimate a clown with a book.

Nothing to be proud of, nothing to regret.

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes

The moon should be colonised, I thought. Mankind should seek a happier beginning, and humans should be free to stroll hand in hand regardless of their weight and orientation.

So long, I replied, may we all have one good flight before we rest among flowers and the orbits of hungry worms.

This lesser world is all about reproduction, as you might well know. Those who cease to duplicate simply die.

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone’s faces.

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.

Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.