"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum. Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead. Scribbling on the sky the message 'He Is Dead'. Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves. Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West. My working week and my Sunday rest. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song. I thought that love would last for ever; I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good."
"As long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind expanding drugs in a consequence free environment, I'll be as sound as a pound"
"When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride till I get to the bottom and I see you again"
"Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate and my time is a piece of wax fallin' on a termite that's chokin' on the splinters"
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses... Hit it!"
"Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood"
"You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fucking year at the old Bender family -- I got a carton of cigarettes -- the old man grabbed me and said 'Smoke up Johnny!' "
"When you reach down to pull up somebody at the bottom of the latter and your at the top, you do it because it makes him stronger, makes you a better person, makes the country stronger. Not because I'm a liberal, not because I want to spend your tax money, but because that's the very basis of the strength of the nation."
"A person's work is nothing but a long journey to recover, through the detours of art, the two or three simple and great images which first gained access to their hearts."
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"I keep a close watch on this heart of mine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Because you're mine, I walk the line"
"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."
"I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected."
"Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath - 'The horror! The horror!' "
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis"
"Both what your run away from -- and yearn for -- is within you."
"He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year, coming home to the place he'd never been before, he left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again..."
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"
"There is neither happiness or unhappiness in this world; there is only comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss"
"He made no attempt to wipe the tears that were running down Mercedes' cheeks, yet we would have given a glass of his own blood for each of those tears; but they were shed for another"
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
"Liberals listen to NPR 'cause they want information. Conservatives listen to Rush Limbaugh 'cause they want ammunition."
"It was baseball to me - stripped down and dusty, hopelessly ragged, gloriously literal. It was the only thing that made sense."
"Desire is desire wherever you go. The sun will not bleach it, nor the tide wash away."
"I think about kids about as often as I think about how nice it would be to set fire to all my savings, scratch my furniture, wear patches of sick on my suits as a fashion statement, and invite unemployed psychotic dwarves to share my life."
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
"Rob, we’re called Sonic Death Monkey… If Laura and her bourgeois lawyer friends can’t handle it, fuck them. Let ‘em riot. We’re Sonic fucking Death Monkey."
"Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end. We'd sing and dance forever and a day. We'd live the life we'd choose. We'd fight and never lose. For we were young and sure to have our way. Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days."
"Life isn't, and has never been a 2-0 home victory against the league leaders after a fish-and-chip lunch"
"If heaven is such a wonderful place, then how is getting crucified such a big fucking sacrifice?"
"We serve hard drinks for men that want to get drunk fast"
"Time is the great gift; sex is the great equalizer; love is the great mystery"
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor the children of men as a whole experiencing it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen"
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
"All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow. Acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separations; births in deaths. Knowing this, one should from the very first renounce acquisition and heaping up, and building, and meeting; and set about realizing the Truth."
"I firmly believe that one should not drive an SUV unless one lives on a dirt road."
"As they took his soul they stole his pride. And as he faced the sun he cast no shadow"
"Life is pain! Anyone who says anything different is selling something"
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!! "
"We come too late to a world too old"
"She looks like the real thing, she tastes like the real thing, my fake plastic love... But I can't help the feeling, I could blow through the ceiling, if I just turn and run... And it wears me out..."
"I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel, I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real, the needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting, try to kill it all away, but I remember everything, what have I become?"
"You can't be paranoid unless you once trusted; you can't be cynical unless you once believed; you can't hate unless you once loved."
"Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania."
"The self is not limited. There are no boundaries or separations of the self. You make your own reality."
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
"I am barely breathing, I can't find the air. Don't know who I'm kidding, imagining you care. I could stand here waiting for another day. I don't suppose it's worth the price that I would pay."
"I like to think about the life of wine... How it's a living thing. I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing; how the sun was shining; if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes. And if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now. I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity. That is, until it peaks, like your '61. And then it begins its steady, inevitable decline... And it tastes so fucking good."
"You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best. I've been gone for a month. I've been drunk since I left. These so-called vacations will soon be my death. I'm so sick from the drink, I need home for a rest..."
"You know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyers to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and the illusionary need for divorce lawyers"
"It's like manifest destiny. Don't tell me we didn't make it. We made it! We are here and everything that is past is prologue to this. All the shit that didn't kill us is only... You know, all that shit... You're going to get over it."
"I spend half the night talking to some girl, who's looking around the room to see if there's somebody else who's more important she should be talking to and it's like I'm supposed to be all happy because she's wearing a backpack."
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
"Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance like no one's watching."
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switerzland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
"Baby talk! What's that? That's not a saying. Oh but baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation..."
"Dig through the ditches, And burn through the witches, I slam in the back of my Dragula!"