An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.