As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

Property is organized robbery.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

I cap myself when I shop; I don’t like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it’s scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I like to take it easy.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

I don’t care about money.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

I don’t like to be bored.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.