I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

None should say: ‘I can trust, ’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

There are no human gods here, just hoods who think they are.

I am sustained by Being Necessary.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

The time to embrace your magnificence is now.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.