The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not good for your relationships. It's not good for a lot of things, but it's the only way to make a work of art.

My spirit life is also the medium in which I live. It's not something that comes and goes. Without one the other wouldn't exist.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.