Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

There can never be someone greater at being you than you.

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable

The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny."

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

Look at your life as a patient and a doctor!