Life's waters flow from darkness, search the darkness, don't run from it.
Lennon and McCartney became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all types of music.
My ethos is musical freedom to create whatever I want.
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
That which I receive, that I return.
I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.
I was a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He was the first president I got to vote for.
What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.
When I'm writing, I am just doing what feels right for me.
I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.
In a nation based on the 'consent of the governed,' judges are supposed to apply the laws the people have assented to.
I like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
I tend not to go look at movies before I make a movie. I'd rather not be specifically influenced.
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Silence was never written down.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
