There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly.

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross

Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

I have my ship, and all her flags are a-flying. She is all that I have left, and music is her name.

Love the one you're with.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

You see every day of life as a bonus once you have inner peace.

There is evil hidden in everyone, mine came out left me bleeding and hurts people around me.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

It is true that there's an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.

Details are our business as writers. Your heart leaps when you see a detail that can go somewhere

The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.

Some people never need to let up at all.