If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being.

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. David Sedaris, Barrel Fever

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

You have to think theres a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

People dont understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You cant see the joy of your previous life.

The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized, its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.

I would wake up at night and think, What the hell have I gotten myself into? You dont want to do that! But you gotta do something, and with art, theres freedom - which is actually very seldom practiced by artists.

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

That's what we're all about, taking advantage of people.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.