If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

All blood runs red.

I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Some people look 40 when they're 40. People look the way they're supposed to look at any age.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually I can't stand the taste of my own breath any more.

Love is still something I'm learning about.

All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.

The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

We have a marriage of people of various cultures coming together. It's not a joke. It's real.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!