"I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me."

-- Evel Knievel

“Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.”
“When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren't exactly satisfied with, and someone tells you it's great, that's even mor...e painful and frustrating.”
“When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"”

Source : "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
“He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.”
“I was a coward. I went to the war.”
“Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.”
“I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.”

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