To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

There is no security. Only opportunity.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. And I think taking any fault away would change who I am as a person.