If you are going through hell, keep going. |

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. |

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. |

Time is the notion of "before and after". |

The total number of minds in the universe is one. |

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. |

If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us: leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records. |

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. |

Play becomes joy, joy becomes work, work becomes play. |

Trust is like oxygen; when there is enough available, nobody notices its presence. The moment there is a shortage, everybody notices it in a very real way |

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. |

My advice should serve for you to oppose it. It is possible that after the opposition you will think the same as I do; but by that time, the thought already belongs to you. |

Less isn’t more; just enough is more. |

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. |

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt. |

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. |

I have become increasingly interested in words, because I think words are images. I don’t see a separation between words and images. I think the right three words can create as much imagery as any motion picture. |

The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else. |

If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, a life-altering interruption in their education or career, and the sudden lifelong responsibility for another human being, I think they'd expect a choice in the matter. |

If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking. |

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. |

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. |

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. |