But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Dare to risk public criticism.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.