I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.

We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Were you thinking about eating me?

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.

I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.