I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that`s OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.