Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

A thousand Dreams within me softly burn

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Je est un autre. (I is someone else).

If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.

When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.

I have a dream: One day we will get to the promised land. Then the president will be me, The government will be Shabaam, Mos and Kweli...that's it! All wackness is now banned.

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.