America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

My life might not turn out to be easy I thought. I just hoped I'd turn out to be strong.

I believe we as humans are meant to have a bond and a connection with all of life itself, and our animals are trying to open our hearts to it.

Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife.

It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.