I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!

Confidence brings joy when we let God be God.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Novels are very different than films and I love to see someone else's imagining of my story.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.