I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.")

She slid on the helmet. "Thanks, Prince Charming." "Huh?" "You know, Cinderella, " she said. "The prince had her slipper and you had my helmet...

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.

There's a fierceness about life that calls for a fierceness to not anxiously solve it but to allow it to transform you.

Being funny is not the same as being happy.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.