There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

Leadership must come from all of us -- the private, public, and civil sectors.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Congratulations to Barack Obama - great victory based on building fairer economy and optimism about what politics can achieve.

I am not a philosopher.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.