The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

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

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...