If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly use soberly distribute cheerfully and leave con-tently.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.