"Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them."

“If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.”

“I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.”

Source : Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

“I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.”

Source : "There's something about Sam" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

“For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.”

“Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.”

“Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.”

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Source : Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) preface

“I still like to keep all the love songs for the Grobanites, I like to make sure that they know those are just for them.”