The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

A healthy amount of fear and respect might be a good idea

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Nobody expects a footballer to have any kind of an IQ, which is a bit of an unfair stereotype.

As Aboriginal people we have always retained our resilience, our humour and our cultural integrity - we will always retain our dreams and a vision for the future for our people.

I absolutely refuse to bare midriff.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

For the dead there are no more toils.

The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.