Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

I forgive people but that doesn’t mean I accept their behavior or trust them. I forgive them for me, so I can let go and move on with my life.

I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.

The leader demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.