Edmond de Goncourt

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.