Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you drifting around, grappling with unfulfilled expectations and vague yearnings.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels.

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

Lists are a form of power.

Freedom cannot be trifled with. You cannot surrender it for security unless in a state of war, and then you must guard carefully the methods of so doing.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.