The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

American Stance: Everything not forbidden is permitted. Prussian Stance: Everything not permitted is forbidden.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

I ‘am shaggy as rivers, forests and mountains My eyes see the universe natural and super My mind is of many cuts Non-identical I have fought demons Half-horse, half alligator I ‘am victorious, I bled

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

the idea of being invisibly alone in a crowd of strangers is so tempting for a number of introverts...or maybe for loneliness?

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

When you're little and you don't have much dough, you have to innovate. You have to be sharp.

How many of us have had our hearts broken for whatever reason yet find the courage to continue to reach out for love. Emotional vulnerability is true strength to me.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee.