Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
start with one true thing
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.
Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.
I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne
I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.
After all, it’s what we’ve done that makes us what we are.
I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.
Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history of the English constitution. In 1779, he had an opportunity to try out his ideas by framing the Massachusetts constitution.
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.