There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Western governments. . . will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy. . . All penalties for drug users should be dropped. . . Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous. . . Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases. . . Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
There were times when I had maybe a couple of hundred dollars, and times I made myself think I was on top of the world.
It is sort of interesting that in our society this days we are very quick to apply the term 'war' to places where thare are no actual wars, and loath to apply the term 'war' when we are actually fighting wars.