Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

I don’t know if he’ll even look at me, because I can barely look at myself.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

It is hard to predict what I want in a partner. It's more about what the universe brings to me, and what I feel is right.