If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.
An idea is salvation by imagination
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.