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

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

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

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.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

There is no insistence where there is pure love. Insistence is infatuation (deep attachment).

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people you hate. But you must still dare to love. The rewards are worth far more than the risks.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.

My time at the Denver Public Schools taught me there is no harder, or more important, job than being a teacher.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

The least I can give them is the best they can get from me. What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?