Some of the homeless

carry a brick around with them
to show that they once
had a house.

The Olympic Games:

the conquest of intelligence
by will.

Religion

is Jihad
against sanity.

All the words

ever spoken
shouted
whispered
and written
will come to nothing.

Original Sin

is taking yourself
seriously.

Terrorism

corrupts terrorists
just as consumption
corrupts consumers.

God is praised,

described, interpreted, denied
upon the pulp of trees.
And God is a tree.

Few man-made things

are as wonderful to look at
as a fire.

The most intelligent

being on the planet
uses his intelligence in unintelligent ways
and wipes out almost everything -
including (at last) himself:
another evolutionary error.
So,
'intelligence' is just a fancy word
for 'pathological cunning'.

Purple

things are often splendid.

Kissing

was considered sinful
in medieval Europe.
But it is now
unacceptable to be
a hermit.

Civilisation

is the manipulation
of desire.

The most important ingredient

in the recipe for dinner
is someone to share it with.

In love and war

everything's unfair.
And life's
a knife
in dying air.

LOYALTY

Because we invented it,
time has been too long
on our side.

Because we are
time's product,
we have passed our sell-by date.

Stupidity

is much more elaborate
than wisdom.

Looking forward

to death - to non-being
is a kind of paradox.
Mortality rocks.

During the Black Death

the principal scapegoats
were Lepers and Jews.
The Gypsies had not then arrived.

Dissidents

are just the few and only people
who dare - or bother - to think
outside the corral of conformity.

War

is peace on the rampage.

First

can be worst.

The pope of hope

denies that death is real.
He worships soap.

Almost everything we do

is an attempt
to justify our existence.

What unites most people

is the refusal to see
the pity of things.

Memories

are the scabs of consciousness.

Truth

is something more lost
than ever gained.

Music

is in the instrument not played
- and in the instrument not made.

an excuse for cowardice

life is not worth living
but I'm not sure
that death is worth
killing myself for

For a dog

god also is a smell.

Oil, not tears,

issues from the eyes of Islam
(which is pissing blood)...

You are truly alone

when you have no-one
to say Good-bye to.

Human stupidity:

Growing crops to fuel cars,
wasting land on tasteless meat
instead of eating beans and fruit
and slugs and vegetables
and actually using our feet.

Two sick words:

God and Love.
Disease
when put together.

The more individualist

people are encouraged to be,
the less confident they become !

Because comfort corrupts

evil prospers.

The Garden of Eden was

WILD.

minotaur

the terrible difference
between man and beast
is terrible arrogance

(arrogance of ignorance
and stupidity)

masks R us:

lose hope -
be happy

Passion

is the friction
between doing
and being.

There can never be

more people living on the earth than ever died.
Man is the only beast designed for suicide.

Decent

is how hypocrites
describe themselves.

The leash which humiliates the dog

condemns the owner
in my eyes.
And neither of them
seems to realise.

Death

is the
Museum of Enlightenment.
Children are ruins.

Human love

(like human life)
is neither necessary
nor sufficient...

As rare as the Unicorn

the believer of good faith.

In our solipsistic society

life gets more
and more interesting
for those who are interested
in life more than themselves.

Machines are stupid

because they are brainless
and made by us
who are even more stupid
because we are ruled
by machines.

Written on a viaduct

near Carcassonne:
DIEU MOURUT POUR NOS PECHES.
God died for our peaches.

What's so great about

- Einstein
- Art
- Orgasm
(to take three at random) ?

Charge and discharge,
Inquietude,
Absence of serenity.

Suddenly

at 66
I'm starting my

Janáček Years:

all inspiration -
but no young lover
no sex, no fears.