It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

Not bad, not bad at all, " Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.

From shit, thus, I extract pure Shinola

…the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn’t matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.