The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

If we deny ourselves the unique human faculty of learning from others’ mistakes, we deny oneself the chance to be a human.

Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

If I could be somebody, it'd definitely be Brad Pitt. I love the way he looks.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.