Historically, there would always be people among the general population who had family members, friends, cousins who'd done time or who'd been in prison.

I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

When you become deeply involved with someone, their problems become yours, and vice versa. It's family.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

There's no experience like on-the-job training.

[Kids] are just like annoying short people

You never know who's going to kill you until you meet them.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

We're all on a continuous journey to try and fix our mistakes and flaws. And, believe me, I've got plenty of them.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

I've never seen, heard, nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about. Hell yes, I'm for debating anything!