One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

Every player, in his secret heart, wants to manage one day. Every fan, in the privacy of his mind, already does.

Adversity creates heroes.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.