Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

The only way to change the future is to change the present.

I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.