The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.

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.

You can't eat hope, ' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you, ' the colonel replied.

Come now, I was not about to let that thing eat you.

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.

When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

I think, with suits and clothes, if you keep them long enough, they all come back in fashion. It's like me. I've been around long enough and I've come back in fashion.