Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

If you have a pre-conceived idea of the world, you edit information. When it leads you down a certain road, you don't challenge your own beliefs.

Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Thought makes everything fit for use.