Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.
Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people
Failure can either be a stepping stone to success or a stumbling to defeat.
I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.
Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.
For all your talk, you don't know the first thing about love. " Tears spilled over her lashes and rolled down her cheeks. She slipped the chain that held his Super Bowl ring over her head and pressed it into his palm. "I love you, Bobby Tom, and I'll love you till the day I die. But I've never been for sale. I was a free offering all along.
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.