You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!

Don't worry about what you can't do, do what you can do!

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Well, actually, I'm a psychic being, and you know, we don't concern ourselves with being born; we concern ourselves with being eternal; we deal with the spirit.

A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.