Every decision you make is a mistake.

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

We don't forgive because people deserve it, we forgive so we can see again.

I'm known for long colorful locs but I still don't take my hair too seriously. Changing it helps express who I am.

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.