"Confine your kissing to the irresistible."

“If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”

“Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.”

“Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.”

Source : Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”

“I'm certainly not going to put my life on hold for him.”

“The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.”

“I don't understand why my fans ask for a hug, like, i don't mind, just come and hug me!”

“Don't stop ever loving me, you can always smoke with me.”

“Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”

Source : "American Names" l. 30 (1927)