Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.
Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.
... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.