...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

This will be Michelle Obama's last opportunity to try to get me to eat kale.

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.