“The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Truth is a tendency.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

The beginning of it starts at the end.

In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

I’m not interested in how things were, or how we ended up where we are now.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.