America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Perhaps the truth is that heavy literature blooms in extremes of temperature.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.