Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

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.

The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents.

They tell me how they are not scared to die, but they are terrified of the lives circumstance forces them to lead.

Writing isn't only about a completed piece of work. It's about the writer you're becoming while writing.

One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key.

You're expected to be perfect the day you start and then improve.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

The primary function of a theatre is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.