Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

If they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

He wants to put his story next to hers.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone.

I danced along a colored wind/ Dangled from a rope of sand

Slept all night in the cedar grove, i was born to ramble, born to rove, some men are searchin' for the holy grail, but there ain't nothin' sweeter than ridin' the rails

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.

Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

Give us this day our daily mask.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.

There is no such thing as a chemical imbalance.

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would explore a scene to find what was most interesting for him.

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.