The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

I will say yes to every favor, request, suggestion and invitation. I will swear to say yes where once I would say no.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

There's a million ways to make people happy.

I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.

I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than just eating breakfast you know.