I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return.

Living in alignment with your true self enables you to cultivate transparency and unshakable authenticity.

Count me amongst the enemies to demons. Except for one.

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Your problems with me are not my problems, those are your problems.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.