People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

So little trouble do men take in the search after truth; so readily do they accept whatever comes first to hand.