So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

You do everything you weren't allowed to do in school. Jumping up and down, screaming, annoying people, and people love you for it.

I don't have to promise myself anything. That's all part of the wonderfulness that is me.

Tolerance is an attribute of egoism.

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which grow up ten years later into domestic hatred.

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of mankind

But I don't know how I really felt about Johnny Manziel, but I feel like now everyone hates him. He's quickly becoming my favorite player in college football.

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs.” “I know how to make a snow angel.” “Then do it! Otherwise, you’re more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.