There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend to few.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.