The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.