I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great.

People need to know that by donating, coaching, and just lending support, anyone can become part of the wonderful global family.

It is like confessing to a murder.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.