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

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

Freedom is relative.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I’m interested in Jackson Pollock’s kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it’s nothing, and yet it’s incredible.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind – like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature – that gets in the way of writing great songs.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

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?‘

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

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

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Life is a song to me.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.