I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

Never be led in new paths by the blind

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

Among the most compelling truths in some of the early photographs is their implication of silence.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.

You try to keep life simple but it never works, and in the end all you have left is yourself.