He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.

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.

Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Youth without beauty is half a prize.

If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed.

I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.

The core failure of Team Obama is not a failure to communicate, but a failure to comprehend.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

Talent emerges over the course of a lifetime of reciprocal interactions between the developing brain and a stimulating environment.

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.