Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.