Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

When you make a man ashamed, you make him dangerous.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

Fundamentally I think we all write the kinds of work we'd most like to read. Or we try to.

So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.