There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I can operate in half-a-song format.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

Art is the proper task of life.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

There is no wealth but life.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.