However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

The important thing is to pull yourself up by your own hair to turn yourself inside out and see the whole world with fresh eyes.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.

What's the point of a revolution without general copulation copulation copulation

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

We've got rights the right to starve We've got jobs waiting for work We're all brothers lousy and dirty We're all free and equal to die like dogs

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

My sister has an incredible body. I feel sorry for anyone who would judge her, because she's one sexy lady... It's disgusting that people would say those things.

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey.