I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

...love is never stationary.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.

Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.