“The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.”

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

I’m a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Religion has the same goal

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York,

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it – it can be salvaged.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

To date or not to date that is the question.

The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited.

The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

When you have a reputation for making not only good songs but great albums, that in itself creates added artistic pressure. But, at the end of the day, I guess that pressure is something I welcome.

I don’t ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.