When necessity speaks it demands.

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

Men show their superiority inside animals outside.

Don't buy the house buy the neighborhood.

If you were born lucky even your rooster will lay eggs.

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

Gossip needs no carriage.

There was never a saint with red hair.

A kind word is like a Spring day.

The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you're going to have - that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.