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.

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

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.

Me too thy nobleness has taughtTo master my despair

I'm not running behind my puberty, I'm running behind my dreams.

Being like them doesn’t help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.

As he thinketh in his heart so is he.

Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York."

When bounteous autumn rears her head, he joys to pull the ripened pear.

The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.