Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

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.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works.

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

sometimes you have to dismantle your life to find your passion.

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

Presidential candidates don't chew gum.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.