Everything was on television last night

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

I am the false character that follows the name around.

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography.

Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.