Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules, Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools.

Obstacles are there to give you more opportunities to grow and excel in life.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury

The worst prison is not made of metal bars. The worst prison is when your internal reality does not match your external reality.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.