Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

An enemy is indeed a precious teacher.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of.

My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.

One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level as he walks by.

Pain is an outcry of sin.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.