"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

“A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.”

Source : 'Lavengro' (1851) ch. 30.

“The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.564, Stanford University Press

“I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?”

Source : "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

“Extensions is you suddenly have long hair when you have short hair, and you can sleep with it and you have it forever, as long as you want to.”

“If everyone catches the cold virus it just... might make you fall into Onew Condition for a while!”

“There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.”

“A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”

“While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.”

Source : Charles J. Givens (1995). “More Wealth Without Risk”, p.294, Simon and Schuster