Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

The stars are the land-marks of the universe.

I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?