“Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.”

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.

If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.