My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

The right to privacy... is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

I think toilets are more important than temples.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.