Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Each soul is potentially divine.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.