All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

Investigating Koreiko's case might take a long time, " said Ostap. "God only knows how long. And since there is no God, nobody knows. We are in a terrible bind.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

All you can do is make something that you like and feel proud of and then just hope for the best and try to get out of its way.