The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.

I thought and pondered -- vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations,

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

I was out at the HBO party, these are liberals, I imagine, and a lot of people came up to me and said, "Keep giving it to the president."

If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.

The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.

I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way