[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.

Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

Perhaps. . .love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.