“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know–because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

We all have souls of different ages.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Sin doesn’t make us bad, sin makes us dead. The gospel doesn’t make us better, the gospel makes us alive.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Rules are not bad, but they can’t save anyone.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

Weed’s not as bad as everything else… ’cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain’t crisp… but you’ll function.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.