Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.