In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

None of us are getting out of here alive".

In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

I try hard to be a good Catholic.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.