Pessimism doesn’t change the reality

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

The Anointing attracts Antagonism

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.