We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

I think people really want to be happy.

The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however "normal" his facade, is faking sanity.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these aberrations, for pretensions can be the enemy of love.