Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal;but if s/he eats the bunny a…

- Maynard James Keenan

It's the role of us to run our government, the government by the people, for the people, and I don't think our government is listening to the people.…

- Maynard James Keenan

So crucify the ego, before its far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all…

- Maynard James Keenan

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

- Maynard James Keenan

Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

- Maynard James Keenan

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

- Maynard James Keenan

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

- Maynard James Keenan

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

- Maynard James Keenan

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people i…

- Maynard James Keenan