[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

I'm 100% better with a little bit of controlled chaos. I just know if I have three things to do, or nine things to do, I'm just better at them if I have nine.

Californians try everything once.