Like other corrupt people, he would never realize that his punishment was in missing out on what he didn’t know he could have.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.

I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life

The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.