First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

You can't just do cheap CGI and think that's going to work. It doesn't.

I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.