There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules
My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.
It's all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
. . . a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles.
So love is the recognition of oneness in a world of duality. This is the birth of God into the world of form. Love makes the world less worldly, less dense, more transparent to the divine dimension, the light of consciousness itself.
Audiences - they like colour, you know. I can go out there wearing a red suit, man, and they'll say I'm out of sight. . . I think they should be educated; you should always drop something on an audience. . . When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give 'em something. After all, they're there looking at you like this. You can't go out and give 'em nothing.