A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

If you don't like the news go out and make some of your own.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

Love is a spiritual soul.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

everything isn't everything