You gain power by pretending to be weak.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of the others.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.