It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul".Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.

What I have always found amazing is that God can use our bad choices to still get us right where He intended us to be.

Ocean is ocean.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

In any group of people, no matter how hard-assed they might appear, there’s always a geek.

We last longer if we compete against ourselves for the good of others instead of competing against others for the good of ourselves.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.