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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye.

Animals are sentient creatures. I love them very much. I do not feel that we have the right to torture, murder, and abuse them for our own disgusting dietary and fashion wants and needs.

The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

You must not hide the gifts God has given, but use them in his service

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

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Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, Look, you've got to get into rehab.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.

The principal cause of war is war itself.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.