One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with the real world we have also abolished the apparent world.

to have to combat one’s instincts—that is the formula for decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness and instinct are one.

True kindness is the greatest measure of a person.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

I'm being embraced by the public, but also baseball is being embraced.

Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.