Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.

As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can be expiated by a similar crime done by all men, acting collectively.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense (Spence, Anecdotes

The first time my mom found condoms in my room, she literally started crying hysterically.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.