There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.

I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for me to work a day job!

Winning wasn't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.