there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

I wake up thinking: What am I reading? What will I read next? I'm terrified that I'll run out, that I will read through all I want to, and be forced to learn wildflowers at last, to keep awake.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Like they say, it ain't over 'til the fat guy swings

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.