I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes for storage.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.