Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

A great brand starts with a hero product.

People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.

Free enterprise is the best economic system in the history of the world, because it is the only system where you can make poor people richer and you don't have to make rich people poor.

When you start noticing even a small portion of all there is to be grateful for, you'll find there is no room for lack, hurt, or want. The attitude of gratitude: the great, full feeling.

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

There's more power in the simpler things, I think.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.