You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

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.

My two worlds were colliding and the friction of this set fire to my life. It was time to roast some wieners.

No, I always wanted to be an actress.

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.