When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

I have only one power that is my power of love.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

[To W.R. Hearst:] Love is not always created at the altar. Love doesn't need a wedding ring.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

Only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed.

The point of vision and desire are the same.