The basic and essential human is the woman.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

What is far is very close, and what is close is very far

Self love is number one. As you radiate it out to others

Reality is a construct of the neurons.

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.