Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

Music, you know, true music not just rock 'n' roll, chooses you.

A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

How different men were to women!

New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.

Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

I am proactive in every duty, except that which requires action.