Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it — than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch.

Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.