of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small—they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.

Mr. Welper, of the few certainties I've come across in life, one of them is that when a person says money is no object, the opposite is most likely true. Money is the only object—or will be.

Imagination is one of the few things a man can count on if he's got the reality to feed it.

My instinct told me that she didn't want me to understand. What she felt and lived with couldn't be shared or understood by anyone else.

If someone you love asks you to give up something you love, don't do it.

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Measures are too often decided, not accord­ing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.