The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

What goes up must come down.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

History is the devil's scripture.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.