You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

For years and years, I would sit in my studio, and I wouldn't have any inspiration. I'd write one or two songs a year.

Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far.

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.