The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

Horror alone brings peace of mind.

Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets.

Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.

I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

When you see people say crazy things on our show, they mean this stuff,and that's easy to forget: They're not joking.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

Clausius and Darwin cannot both be right.

Preparation, mastery, can help you overcome your fear, but mastery alone is not enough. There has to be something you want that’s worth more to you than your fear.