You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

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.

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind... That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it from being true kitsch, which always strives to please.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

You are where you are today because youve chosen to be there.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'