Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.

I had my moment on the stage. The trick in life is to know when to leave.

With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

A couple weeks ago I was on the street and I saw an ugly pregnant lady, and I just thought, 'Good for you.'

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

Truth is not afraid of questions.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.