Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

Does poem also walk through the valleys seeking tongues from dandelions?

You showed me myself, and nobody else in the world could have done that, because there’s nobody I have ever loved the way I love you. I owe you all of that.

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

It's sad to be constantly judged for every move you make after your first success. If you wear your hair differently, you have changed.

Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.