That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

Philosophy has forgotten about children

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production.

A lie can only make a temporary sense. The truth is permanent and lasts forever.

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself

My mom was a volleyball player, and my dad was a soccer player. I never thought about it, but they always served healthy food at home, and I love it, and it kind of was a regular part of my day.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?