Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.

What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.