Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.