Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

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.

Why do you and I have to hold these memories?''It gives us wisdom.

In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

Everybody feels like a freak in some way at some time in their life. Or feels on the outside. And everybody is worthy of love.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

To be a successful state, we must nurture successful children.

Hold firmly to your word.