If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.

Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

My expertise is running businesses.

Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my pregnancy... So sue me!

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.