Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

Love is the only engine of survival

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.