It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.