I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

In the Chili Peppers I'm a part of that world in a pretty big world and that's just the way it is.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph?" "Dude," Percy said, "I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

Do not spend your time thinking about the world or your relationships to individuals. These are all impermanent. They have only to do with the body.