They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

The eclipses ofpoets are not foretold in the calender.

I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

Being brave isn't supposed to be easy.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.