Fit to govern? No, not fit to live.

Let every man be master of his time.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

And nothing is, but what is not.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in Bush pre-Iraq ‘WMD’ campaign.

For 45 years I've worked without an audience.

Of course, I do my own stunts. And I also do my own lying.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.