The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Be that self which one truly is.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.