Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.

Maybe it was our shared trauma, or maybe it was a combination of things, but I felt warmth emenate from my heart and spread throughout my chest.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

We all have the duty to do good.

Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.