Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.