127 quotes
The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
High Times interview (2002)
Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
If you want to change the world, change yourself.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
There is evidence that the honoree might be privy to the secret of the universe, which, in case you’re wondering, is simply this: everything is connected. Everything.
Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005)
Would God really accept twice-a-month lovemaking for procreative purposes and give Satan the all-night, no-holds-barred, nasty "can't-get-enough-of-you" hot-as-hell fucks?
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)
Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
I set an example. That's all anyone can do.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Nobody can say the word “naked” as nakedly as Cohen. He makes us see the markings where the pantyhose have been.
Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005)
When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976)