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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except for what thou deemest to be a worthy cause, where thou thinkest that thou canst use the loot for a better purpose than wouldst the victim of the theft."

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

Cause my life is dope, and I do dope sh*t

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.'

Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.