I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

This is how women are trained to stay indoors, she thought, the idea echoing in her mind like a gravesong. This is how women are trained not to act.

Your thought should be creative and not destructive

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

The last time I put on this uniform (Cincinnati), I think I was eight, for a father-son game.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.