Sometimes we choose a friend who mirrors our fantasies, dreams of a self we wish we could be.
You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream
We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life. " My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.
The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.