My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

You can't take the sky from me.

Sadness is a vice.

And you are with us and one of us, and we are the people of the moon and the stars.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.