I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Fear is like a disease that can be fatal if not treated on time.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Love can conquer everything but reality. Which will win every stinking time.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.

I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of Ukip.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.