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

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

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

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.