All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain't never seen a donkey fly! Ha, ha!

Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.

How can you do the moonwalk and ask a woman to dance? Hey baby lets dance... cya later!

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people

I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart