It is impossible for any culture to be sound and healthy without a proper respect and proper regard for the soil.

Wanna know the truth about yourself and this universe? Just learn to understand your DNA code then you'll see.

Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!