I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the world, or God.

Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.

I think some bands thrive on the idea of changing instruments. When they're off their real instrument, the ability to go very far from the original idea is reduced.