Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Inner turbulence leads to anger.

God is our great helper.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

All is asleep: the army, the wind, and Neptune.

People like B.B. King told me I was a 'star' and told me I was 'the future of blues' - and Buddy Guy, too, ... They told me, 'You're it, son; go on out there.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

There's something very refreshing about being on stage.

We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.