You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

The war for peace can destroy the whole world.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.