All knowledge is worth having

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.