The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)
And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.
In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow, time-consuming, inefficient, boring process that requires our involvement; it is called 'being a citizen. ' The public good is not something that you can see. It is not static. It is a process. It is the process by which democratic civilizations build themselves.