I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Tears are a cleansing shower for the soul.

If you admire somebody you should go ahead and tell them

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.