I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

I'm not a natural joiner.

Don’t get high off praises, and don’t get too low on critiques.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.