We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

Man, what are you talking about? Me in chains? You may fetter my leg but my will, not even Zeus himself can overpower.

His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back.

If I'm going to see my mom, I'm going to church!

It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

I started being me about the songs, not writing objectively, but subjectively. I think it was Dylan who helped me realize that - not by any discussion or anything, but by hearing his work.

You are equally important to me, and I love you all.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.