Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.
I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.
Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.
War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.
Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.
There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.
Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
There are things that are shadow sides of the creative energy that are negative and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I say to myself is, in the spirit of that quote from the Gnostic Gospels: Writing is a way to let all that stuff out into the sun.
There is always a moment when you think of death as a way easier than life.