I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Learning is intelligence.Knowing is understanding.Practicing is wisdom.Teaching is virtue.

The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.

Commit to being happy andmake the choices that willsupport your commitment.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

The cowards think of what they can lose, the heroes of what they can win.

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

Nature is surely the glorified face of God. See the beauty about you and ... see the manifestation of the infinite Mind.