In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

The property of power is to protect.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.