1. “The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing.”
2. “We should exterminate all rational thought.”
3. “Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.”
4. “Happiness is a byproduct of function Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.”
5. “Paranoia is just having the right information.”
6. “Death needs times for what it kills to grow in.”
7. “The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.”
8. “Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
9. “Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.”
10. “There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
11. “If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.”
12. “The face of evil is always the face of total need.”
13. “Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.”
14. “Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
15. “I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.”
16. “The simplest questions are the most difficult.”
17. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”
18. “No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive .”
19. “You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.”
20. “Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”
21. “There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.”
22. “There are no innocent bystanders.”
23. “Language is a virus from outer space.”
24. “You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.”
25. “Never interfere in a girl and boy fight.”
26. “When you stop growing you start dying.”
27. “My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.”
28. “Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.”
29. “The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.”
30. “Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.”
