All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

The torture is in the anticipation – the unknown, the restless sleep, insuppressible urge.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?