What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Write about the dream you see during wakefulness.

Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Music is more fun when it's collaborative, in my opinion.

My hairstyle role model is Manuel Neuer. His hair is always perfect.

Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.

I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

On A Beautiful Mind, there was a wall of math.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes.