The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Resentment lies in the heart of fools.

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan, for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.

There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.