That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.