It is futile to try to make the universe add up. But I guess we must go on anyhow.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

There is always room for the man of force.

A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.

Kosovo is not a part of Serbia. It is the very heart of Serbia.

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.