They're not going to get me.

All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.

OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

They're not going to get me.

What do you expect me to do about it?

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.

We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.

I never raise my voice!

Changing the world is not easy but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

One should always be drunk. Thats all that mattersBut with what With wine with poetry or with virtue as you chose. But get drunk.

I've been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

I am passionate about swimming, which I try to do at least five times a week.

Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

Spike Lee listens a lot. He's one of the quietest creative people I've ever met.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.