A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.

I was always on my oddy knocky.

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care.

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen.

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching.

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.

Whole people see and create wholeness wherever they go; split people see and create splits in everything and everybody.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.