A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven.

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.