The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

This is a time of change, ” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

Saying of the Mulla Nasrudin. If I survive this life without dying, I'll be surprised.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital in key sectors, reduce employment, and make households worse off.

The law is the public conscience.

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.