Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Life is not others' perception about you, but what you experience within.

The key to genius is knowing how to make connections.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.

Lawyers are natural politicians.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.