Why are people so unkind?

Anyone can admire creation. Only a barbarian sees the beauty in demolition.

A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

My mind has changed. My strength has not.

I didn't come to play. I came to win.

There is no greater burden than choosing who to save.

The only kind of water that should fly through the air is rain.

Folly and evil are disciples of doom

Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth” – I rap my knuckles on the table – “you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue.

We end up kissing her for an hour, and her lips are so soft they are almost like a joke.

Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

American radio from the '30s through the '60s was just fabulous. There was such a diversity.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.