There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
I went out with a promiscuous impressionist - she did everybody.
When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.