The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Life supports what supports more of life

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

God is and he has revealed himself fully in Jesus Christ.

I think that you're going to get so much more out of life if you just say yes at every opportunity.