"Only the river is free, always changing but always the same."

-- Raymond Sokolov

“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.”
“The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....”
“Uh, you all haven't asked this, but I will go ahead and tell you this. Do I think I'm the one that killed this kid? Yes...Uh, if it wasn't this kid I killed, then there's a murder out there that, that we still ain't undug yet.”
“My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.”
“I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.”
“I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.”
“The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.”
“But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?”

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