"Parents are never as bad as kids think they are."

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die!"

"How is the Empire?"

"If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing."

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance."

"The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."

"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand."

"It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness."

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest, honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid."