"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."

-- Franz Kafka

“For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.”
“Be good and you will be lonely.”
“Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.”

Source : Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Open Secret”, p.52, Sentient Publications
“It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most. Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.”
“The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you”
“I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in a punk band. For me, 'SNL' is like... this is gonna sound overly dramatic, but... the way I am, it feels like I'm a soldier, so it was like, 'What do you want me to do? Put me anywhere. Do you want me to do these sketches? Great.'”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.”

Source : «Hardball with Chris Matthews», www.nbcnews.com. October 17.
“Enthusiasm for the universe, in knowing as well as in creating, also answers the question of doubt and meaninglessness. Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge. And meaninglessness is no threat so long as enthusiasm for the universe and for man as its center is alive.”

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