W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

I'd like to discover Truth - when I can latch on to something that I think is true.

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience, that the information accumulated was available forever.

We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when we went to the moon, and so they don't have the perspective.

In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that.

Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

All who see it say, "Well, you have favorable conditions here. Everything grows for you." Everything grows for everybody. Everything dies for everybody, too.

Wherever humans garden magnificently, there are magnificent heartbreaks.

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

I spent a lot of time with making sure everyone felt wanted.

I love British female directors lately.

I'm going to go wherever I'm needed.

Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

They'll crucify you for staying the same, and they'll crucify you for change. I'd rather be crucified for changing.

Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me, they're too personal.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

You can give me 400,000 hostile people and I won't even break sweat. If you give me 200 adoring people, my mouth will dry out.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Van Gogh was impulsive.

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.

When I was 19 I went to art school. I had six months of teaching myself to play baritone ukulele under my belt so I was sort of a novice folkie... I was singing folk songs at that time.

Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew there was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too.

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.