irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated. I'm celebrated in Detroit.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.