The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

GOD is so clear, He is invisible.

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

When I'm at the piano, and I'm improvising some song about something, it usually oscillates between factual, absurd, and sincere.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.