I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

I'm in a New York state of mind

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.

Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow

Fatigue seems to be a factor in this accident.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.