Talking is easy action difficult.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

God promised to bless the works of our hands. If you do not work, what is God going to bless you for?

What else is there to do?

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.

You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad.

Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I'll be honest, I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.