The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

My father and brothers were coal miners.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

It is our past that defines who we are and gives us the courage to progress into the future without fear

Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

1. Be on time. 2. Never criticize a teammate. 3. Never use profanity.

My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand.

Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.