Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?""Word games, " I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.

Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Don't blame me. That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution.

Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind to yourself.

Veins stood out in her temples as she struggled against her silence. No one noticed. Those words had already been used up, spent, thrown out into the atmosphere to dissipate without effect.

Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

That's one thing that you notice in New York that you don't notice in LA is how much music is all over the place.

When I hear about something that's hot, I back away from it. So I go and discover the stuff I wasn't paying attention to five years ago.

I have sympathy for any human being that's driven by their limbic part of their brain. We all know that exists in a person.

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do.