I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

Advertising is saying you're good. PR is getting someone else to say you're good.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.

God brings millions of flowers to bloom without force.