It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Call a man 'ignorant, ' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I've been acting all along. I understand that I haven't been in people's viewers, but acting has never not been a part of my life, just more time in between and less high-profile.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.