“The ridiculous is closer to life’s source than the sensible.”

You don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that?

There should be a connection between a man’s hairstyle and what matters to him in life.

But I feel vanity is a part of art and the non-vain are really non-artistic.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

But once you describe something, you destroy it.

I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

Rocks are more co-operative than people.

Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German’s six ways of saying ‘the’, like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner.

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible.

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I’ll be free.

As a man I’d been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

Wind is what happens when air falls in love with itself.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says ‘No’, then you have to knock on the next door.

The voice of God must mean to him more than what he sees, feels, or what people say.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

For me, being in prison writing in an African language was a way of saying: “Even if you put me in prison, I will keep on writing in the language which made you put me in prison.”

Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?