How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!

The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.

woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself