If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

I don't know whether you've ever had a woman eat an apple while you were doing it. Well, you can imagine how that affects you.