Creativity is the fragrance of individual freedom.

Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning.

Everybody is born creative, but very few people remain creative.

A creative person is one who has insight, who can see things nobody else has ever seen before, who hears things that nobody has heard before—then there is creativity.

Creators almost always go mad.

The great appeal of drugs in the West is only because the West has succeeded in destroying the right hemisphere completely because of compulsory education.

Don’t allow your life to become just a dead ritual. Let there be moments, unexplainable.

Buddhas also have to be swept away, because the door can become a hindrance if you cling to it.

We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.

Time isn't just a quantity. It's information.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Beginning before you know what you want to say and keeping on after you have said it lands a merchant in a lawsuit or the poorhouse, and the first is a shortcut to the second.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.

A lion can't stay in a cage. A lion has to be on the pitch.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

The only winner today is big business.