The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

From the moment we are born, we begin to die.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

...suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.

Remember: the universe neither judges, nor interprets, nor second guesses your will. If it did, there would be no poverty, no hunger, no suffering.

I was told by a physician to avoid any line of work where people need to, um, depend on me for anything.

I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.

UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Canadian pride may not rest on our sleeves, but it resides deeply in our hearts.