Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs. . . we ad lib, and every night there's jamming. . it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.
Many a necklace becomes a noose.
I have been known for almost 30 years to sort of do whatever comes my way. It's always been touch-and-go after each job finishes. I just like to be working.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.