Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

What a trajedy to be a martyr for love, yet we worship the characters anyways because they remind us of how we struggled.

The struggle to live up to an “ideal image” of who we should be in order to feel safe misdirects and depletes our energy.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters.

Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.