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.

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.

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

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this in terms of creativity. Look at the state of people at 65. How many of them become creative after having to survive in the money culture?