This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

We are writing the history of our time.

As you awaken to the new day, put your hands to your heart, breath in and say: I am loved. I am love. I love, I love, I love.

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.

My father was a Creole his father a Negro and his father a monkey my family it seems begins where yours left off.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.