The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.

But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.

Without fools there would be no wisdom.

London is a roost for every bird.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.