The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

Beware of advice—even this.

Swing your swing. I know, I did.

When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.

When black America is on the move, America is on the move.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

It is better to starve than get a bad client.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.