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?

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

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

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.

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.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket

I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.