The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

Life can become difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires.

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

If the legends fall silent, who will teach the children of our ways?

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

Life is funny, baby, and that's no joke

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.