Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

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.

Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions.

Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?