It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

My journey is technical complexity.

My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.

You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to things, but there was no safety net. Doctors accused me of being mad.

Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick

Of all matches never was the like.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

There were a couple of occasions when it was passed around - and, unlike President Clinton, I did inhale!

Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery.

Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.