I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith.
I don't have a massive fan base. I don't have Patton Oswalt numbers, but the fan base I have is incredibly generous, and of the 22,000 people who follow me on Twitter, I think almost all of those people participate.
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.
My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
I'm the type of guy that always respect the older rappers who paved the way for us to get here.
I pay lots of homages. I wanted to pay tribute to a leading Iranian writer, Gholam - Hossein Sa'edi, who is buried in Paris - he is an Iranian Arthur Miller. He is of a similar stature, and his work is similar to that of Arthur Miller.
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
No matter who is watching or paying the paycheck, we are ultimately each our own boss.
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Anybody who walks out peacefully, who protests peacefully, that's what this country was built on.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
