I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

punishment had not been spared--with best results in patience and purification

Thinking to do or not to do is not the right thing to do, just think the right way and do it

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

When you create something out of nothing it's the most thrilling thing.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

I found that the body, mind and spirit are all connected. They are not separate pieces.

The punk-rock ethos was "Do it yourself. Anyone can do this. We're not sent from the heavens."

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.