You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Work! Thank God for the swing of it for the clamoring hammering ring of it.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.

You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

Don't stop moving - the best time of your life is just around the corner!

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

But it can be hard to experiment when you're in a band.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.