There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

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.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

When I look back and reflect even to this day I made the decision to stop feeling sorry for myself and to move forward even when I felt like I didn't want to

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive