Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Man is a bad animal.

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.

Where faith increases, liberty follows.-The Liberty Book

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed

I myself am an absolute abyss.

If the world appears abundant in smiles or overwhelmed by scowls, you might ask yourself if you're not to blame.

Ideas and their creators run the world…one’s place in the world is due partially to the ideas that a culture has forced on one and/or the ideas that a person “freely” accepts and uses.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them than the sound that comes out of all this speculation.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.