Only Quotes

Great triumphs can only come out of great trials

You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

There is only one way in which one can endure man’s inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one’s own life, to exemplify man’s humanity to man.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

The bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.

The only thing I really worry about is my live stand-up show because I have to answer to the fans.

Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

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.