An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The one thing disappointing I had coming out of college was not playing in the Rose Bowl.

I bought a girl roses once.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

There's so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, 'Wow, this is awesome!' But then you're already thinking a mile ahead about what the next landmark is, what the next goal is.

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'

I'm a mudboy. I came from the mud, oozed out the concrete. I'm not a rose. I'm a mudboy: I came from nothing.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.