Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

God of mighty powers.God of great deeds.

Since you stand in the same bridge with him why don't you two just jump off.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

I can't sing anything other than country!

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.