The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Nothing on earth fulfills the heart better than unconditional self-love.

Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.

Rock n roll is what I would die for, but I love music and I love exploring, taking the challenge of playing, writing or singing... or producing.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.