Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

As you transform yourself, you transform the world.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

I don't know what truculent means, but if it's good, it's me

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.