To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

I learned a lot. I knew I had a lot to learn because it's been so long, but that sure did show up there today.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

When Frank Zappa would get an idea for a song, he just did it. He didn't wait for anybody or expect anyone to do it.