James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

God is everything in every where.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

Trust not to your feelings for whatever they might be now, they will quickly be changed towards some other thing.