All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.

The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

No, I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose

Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

I just want to write good songs that people love, which is a tough thing to do.

Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity.

I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!

The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.