It is better to ride a pony than a horse which throws you.

One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

You are responsible for your choices, and your choices define who you are.

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

We don't see the people that vice destroys. We just see the glamour of it - everywhere we look, from billboard signs to movies, to newspapers, to magazines. We see the destruction of human life.

Believe in yourself, know yourself, deny yourself, and be humble.

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

You’re loitering, citizen.” “Actually, I was hesitating.

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.