[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I'd choose to believe in God - He's been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

A conglomerate of complicated words, they confuse, condemn and cajole, created, he is sure, for the sole purpose of fuddling the listener, which in this case is regrettably him.

Love exalts because it is exalted.

Music is about your feelings.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.

My inspiration can come from anything - films, the street, paparazzi pictures.

I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.