Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

I remember trying to work out like crazy to get rid of all of my womanly features because I thought they made me fat.

Art is fast, but with art you're tied down. That's too negative. What I mean is, you have a business and a place that you go every day. I guess some artists do move around.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful.