My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

We have a lot of work to do and I‘m afraid that it‘s a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

I think the best part for me is just being able to perform for people every week.