It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Dreaming By Day, Wishing On Stars At Night...

Only in the love of those who do not serve a purpose, love begins to unfold.

...I regard cats as one of the great joys in the world. I see them as a gift of highest order.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Collaboration always wins over competition... and is more fun, too.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.