The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The woods decay, the woods decay and fall.

You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.

I'll teach you to kick me...' You don't need to teach me--I already know how!

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I don't see everybody as much as I used to because as individuals everybody is busy but none of the relationships have changed.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.