"Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le complique  . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner."

“A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.”

Source : "Billy Childish Interview On Stuckism, Humor And Moustaches". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

“Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.”

“Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.”

“Sometimes rabbits, like, turn me on. I don't know why.”

“In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.”

“Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.”

“The American people want peace. They have long since ceased to talk of a hard or a soft peace for Germany.”

“You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.”