One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

I loved Verti. Until she jumped. That is when I felt Vertigo.

If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

If you've sold over a million records, you are not punk rock, you are milking the system for everything that it's worth.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.'

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Miriam realizes she is a broken vessel, pieces of her scattered everywhere. She has been finding those pieces, in their many forms, and bringing them together so she can be whole again.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.