New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen

If you want more from life — start by counting your blessings instead of counting your losses, deficits and wants.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.

We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people.