Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

It's the truth, even if it didn't happen......if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind....

Society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.

Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.

I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.