When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

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.

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

We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

When people are worried about the future, they don't take trips to Hawaii.

Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

Killing Jesus was like trying to destroy a dandelion seed-head by blowing on it

Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!