"You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God."

“If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.”

“If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.”

Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.53, Chronicle Books

“Every man is a hero of his own story.”

“Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?”

“Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.”

“I understand the Second Amendment. I support it. People have the right to bear arms.”

“As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.”

Source : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2011). “Property is Theft!: A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Anthology”, p.133, AK Press

“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”