The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.

Beauty is what you make of it. It is undefined and limitless.

Words shall not be hidnor spells buriedmight shall not sink undergroundthough the mighty go.

Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes

Better to flee from death than feel its grip.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.