You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain usWe can meet again, in thought.

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

Stand on the gas, my friend. If your right foot doesn't ache, you're obviously doing something wrong.

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.