"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions

In Indian Country, ” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.

the tears finally got the best of him and he pressed his palms to his eyes as his shoulders started to shake. He cried silently, in so much pain that there was no sound to equal it

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.