The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

It is no accident that wherever the State ha taken economic decision away from the citizen, it has deprived him of his other liberties as well.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

To be honest, the play that was drawn up, I scratched it. I just told coach, 'Give me the ball.' We're either going to go to overtime or I'm going to win it for us. It was that simple.

Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

The Muppets are no joke. They are for real. Each one has an agent and manager and all that stuff. I'm not even kidding.

I will not meddle in America's internal political squabbles.