I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.

I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Taylor Martinez is to Nebraska what iPad is to Apple.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.