When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Michael Cole, what did you get for Christmas? Except drunk.
Helen Hart is the only person I know with an autographed copy of the Bible.
If the Japanese are so smart, why do they eat with sticks?
What do Jake 'The Snake' Roberts and a beer bottle have in common? They're both empty from the neck up!
In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.
Koko B. Ware is a crossword wrestler: he enters the ring vertically, and leaves horizontally.
If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.
To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!
You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.