What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, isn't war the most demented activity ever invented?

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

You can kind of judge how old a film is by the size of the cell phones.

Confusion is better than stupid conclusions. In confusion, there is still a possibility. In stupid conclusion, there is no possibility.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.

My belief has always been that national defense is the most important thing we do, but we shouldn't borrow to pay for it.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.