We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

If anything has made men more effeminate in the past half-century, it's been the running feminist critique of masculinity.

The majority of astronauts have to change their eyeglasses while in space. They bring eyeglasses with them and typically change a few months into the mission.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

Texas Red is about the biggest blues hellraiser you'll ever meet.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

With a Q&A, you need obviously to keep it snappy.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.