It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

To be a great success, be happy today.

Running away is vastly underrated.

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.

Temporize not! It is always injurious.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and dont give them a lot of credence.