The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.
Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.
Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.
Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.