The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

I will be an artist or nothing!

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Terror starts picking at the seams of my mind, throwing hateful words like rapture and holocaust at me.

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down the fence.

To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.