All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.

By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.

I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn’t keep up.

Things are only hopeless when you lose all hope.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.