She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden.

Are you trying to call me strange, Mandrake?” I pout playfully.He nods. “Your strange is what makes you sensational to me.

Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

I’ve been surrounded by nitwits my entire life.

Nothing worldly will ever become the Self (the Soul). The Self [the Soul] will never become worldly. Both are separate things.

I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.

If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Don't be entitled - earn your success.

Let me go to hell, that's all i ask.

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.