Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.

In evolutionary terms, that means we asked for it.

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Every passion has its destiny.

One must first become a magician before one he can become a Kabbalist. As a Kabbalist, one works differently and more advantageously.

My, how beautiful is war! its songs, its leisure!

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

If memories were all I sang, I'd rather drive a truck.

Each of us is already special in the sense that nobody has the unique pattern of potentialities that anyone else has.

When I was younger, I thought about retiring.