Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

I think for me the job always has to be the right thing at the right time.

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.

To dispose of a two-headed Org, jump up and down three times, roll a head of cabbage, and giggle!

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.