The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.

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.

Watch out! It's quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven't yet been made.

This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

I often went to bed without supper cause I hated my mother's cooking. So, to go to bed without supper was not a torture to me. If she was gonna hurt me, she'd make me eat.

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.