San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

When you think you can, you will have the grace take action.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.

I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.

I hope to do films. Right now I'm just doing projects that are interesting.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.