If love be blind, it best agrees with night
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.
When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet. . . When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world.
Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.
A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest.
God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.