Freddie Greene

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

Change isn’t a light switch; it’s slow and gradual.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.

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

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.