It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.