Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

The difference between "I wish", and "I will" is two letters, get up and make that change.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

Wen I die, my money is not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious and keep smiling like the joker

Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen.

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

I grew up as a kid being able to attend concerts, go to art museums. Santa Barbara was a rich cultural community, and I had access to everything. I think that shaped me as an artist.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

I listen to pop music and it sounds like mantra to me, there's this power to it. There's also something to be said about how it reaches people on a mass level, there's some magic to that.