"Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can."

“Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.”

Source : Wendy Weir, Jerry Garcia (Spirit) (1999). “In the Spirit: Conversations with the Spirit of Jerry Garcia”, Harmony

“If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.”

“I always thought that I could write a novel. In my case, it was misguided. I do believe that the best nonfiction is not "literary journalism," a misleading term, but rather journalism that asks the questions that serious literature asks. It's storytelling that happens to be true. So I don't think it was a missed opportunity. After awhile you learn what you're really good at. Life is short, so spend time doing that.”

“Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history”

“Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.”

Source : Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

“Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think”

“Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.”

“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”