I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

The most political thing you can do is be yourself

I am what I am. There's nothing I can do about it.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.

Karma chameleon: we come and go, we come and go.

After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously

Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] - things that you probably shouldn't like.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Tradition is a more interrupted and feebler memory.

I don't think a bankruptcy is a good thing.

Enterprise is better than ease.

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

For a devotee death opens door for liberation but for a non-devotee death is end of everything.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.