Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.

The process is the goal.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.