I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

If you listen to music every day, you will be happy.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I'm cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.

Human beings can be awful, but they can also be tremendous.

One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.

Rhetoric matters, but at the end of the day policy matters more.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.