You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.

Pain or damage don't end the world.

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.

The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.

Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Bloodletting on my premises that I ain't approved I take as a f***ing affront. It puts me off my feed.

Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

The question is: until reinforced, can we learn the ways of church mice.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Imagination is heavenly.

If you cannot seat where they sit, you have no right to tell them what’s good for them.

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.