But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition.

Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

The high cost of low living.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.

You need fear to create, to live.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.