Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do.

Extend your loving and kind hands towards others. In return you will find that the whole universe will be kind to you.

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

Life is a climb but once you get to the top you'll realize that the view is beautiful!!

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Goliath's mother, who said to Goliath, Stop running around with David! You're always coming home stoned! Never got a dinner!