There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

Walk gently, and be brave.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

I can't know everything, pretend you're an orphan.

Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I always thought I was more satanic than Manson.