We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.

I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.