I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.

The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush.

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

In sales, as in medicine, a prescription before diagnosis is a mistake in the arts.

I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.