Daniel Keys

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I’d never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn’t meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

I thought about writing a poem explaining how when you are lost at sea, even if you are rescued and survive, you never really come back. Then I realized everyone that’s ever been in love would already understand.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?