When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

Enjoy every sandwich.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

If you cannot be happy with the little you have, you can be confused with the lot you want to have

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

The holy people delights in the Lord.

Right now is always the right time for almost everything.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.

People have a deep need to be legislators, and the idea of autonomy has become very precious.

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.