Give a genius enough time and opportunity, and his idiocy will come shining through.

It's not enough to just do your best. You must continue to improve your best.

The best stories are about a character who has a goal or noble quest and goes through hell to get it. Do you have a goal or quest like that in real life? Why not?

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others.

Photographers don't take pictures. They create images.

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

In the Trump administration we will end decades of policies that enrich special interests and foreign countries at our expense.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf

A good rule for mental conduct—think whatever it makes you truly happy to think.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.