Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

Cats know, comin' out of four, they better be standin' on it, else they'll be standin' in it.