It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

William Penn

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Don DeLillo

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

Denny McDonough

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Emma Goldman

Thug Life to me is dead.

Tupac Shakur

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

George Grove

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joel Madden

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Pauley Perrette