We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!

Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

It really was getting difficult to be wonderful.

Am I right in saying that the locust of this problem is simply that judges in America are half political animals and half oracular demigods?

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane