A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

I love being in the studio. Expressing myself that way is really cool.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.