Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things

If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

So the idea of being able to shop cross-category to buy the beach bag, the summer lip gloss, and the pillows for your pool house makes it into very focused, easy life.

I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.

Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.