Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

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.

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

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.

Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another.

I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.