You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist