Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.

I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.