“For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.”

“My heart has become as hard as a city street,
The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,
All day long and all night long they beat,
They ring like the hooves of time.”

Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet

“I'd play at all the talent nights,
I'd finish, they'd applaud.
Some called it muffled laughter,
I just figured they were odd.
So I went up for an encore,
but they screamed they'd had enough.
Or maybe I just need a group
to help me do my stuff.”

Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“I want to be spontaneous like a wild animal”

Giovanni Morassutti (1980) Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur.

“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the face and lips and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smiled and kept moving.”

Neil Gaiman book Fragile Things

“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night…”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

“If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“If I could do it all again, I'd be a farmer.”

Mobutu Sésé Seko (1930–1997) President of Zaïre

“1987: "I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time."”

Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer