You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

In principle, I am against principles.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Everyone dances to his own personal boomboom.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Let us try for once not to be right.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.

Not the old, not the new, but the necessary.

Alice? You didn’t get this far without realizing that you don’t have to cheat to win. You just have to accept that people are easily manipulated.

Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

I've campaigned many, many times together with Senator McCain. He's campaigned for me; I've campaigned for him, good friend.

People have started wasting fashion