True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
Keep your words. This pain is no life. " "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.