Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

What we imagine in our minds becomes our world.

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.