Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.
I don't think there's anything that will make me stop doing it. There may be a time when it's not available to anyone. You may have to come listen at my basement window... but I can't stop.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.