A baseball diamond is like a canvas, and every game is a work of art.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth? —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.

When there’s thunder, there’s lightning to beware of. And where there’s Ferrari, there’s speed to be had.

When there’s smoke around, there’s fire to be found. Where there’s thunder, there’s lightning to beware of. And where there’s Ferrari, there’s speed to be had.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

Standing at this liquor store Whiskey coming through my pores Feeling like I run this whole block

I know who likes football likes me

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like

What I said the other day, you looking like me, that ain’t true. You ain’t ugly like me, it’s just that we both have got scars.

I’m gonna take myself a nap. Please don’t wake me up unless you’re sure we’re going to crash, because… I wouldn’t want to miss something like that.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

The search for nirvana, like the search for utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

There is nothing wrong with electricity; nothing except that modern man is not a god who holds the thunderbolts but a savage who is struck by lightning.

I’ve fallen for you like a blind roofer.

What they’re not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

To fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Music never felt like a job

It’s not that people want to be like me, but some want to say the things I say and can’t because they’re afraid. I say it for them

You wanna know how rich people like me stay rich? By staying on a budget

I’m going to encourage any type of woman. You don’t have to be a woman like me for me to encourage and support you and tell you, ‘yes b****, keep on going.

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Any man who does not like dogs and wants them about, does not deserve to be in the White House.

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, and throw thunder in jail.