Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Elvis is bound to be dead. Look at all the vultures in his vicinity.

Maybe staying single meant that you never had to grow up.

Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged

It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

anger is more productive than fear.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

I'm looking for what I was capable of before... Or to be more precise, I'm trying to see whether I'm still capable of it.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of Communist ideology that was explicitly atheistic.

If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.