I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

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

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Me? I stand for uncertainty, insecurity, bad taste, fun, and things that go boom in the night.