The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

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

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.