The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.