Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

You can only carry the illusive personality in your mind until you realize the truth behind it, but the time you realize the truth, you just cannot hold the illusive self of yours, in the mind.

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

On the murder of New York deli owner Abe Lebewohl: It's almost like wiping out Carnegie Hall. A sandwich to a Jew is just as important as a country to a Gentile.

Being against torture ought to be sort of a multipartisan thing.

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.