Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.