Bobby Darin

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Teach children not to be gullible.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

Scriptures, n.: The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.