I was looking for the key for years But the door was always open

It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

...Mrs. Percy understood that staying beautiful all day long is the most important aspect of being married...

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.