It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.
Your library is your portrait.
Happiness is a form of courage.
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
Genius is initiative on fire.
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.
Anothers bread costs deare.