If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

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!

Thomas had never seen anything like her in his life, and he knew, with a beautiful sort of sadness, that he never would again.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

I'm not one of these guys who says 'Now I'm on a really hot show. Better quit soon before I get labeled.' That's the most ridiculous notion I'd ever heard.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.

Why put off kicking somebody's *ss next week when I can do it right now.