'Cause I'll rip the mic, rip the stage, rip the system I was born to rage against 'em

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face...

It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?

Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now controls the past. Who controls the past now controls the future. Who controls the present now?

Your anger is a gift.

The classroom's the last room to get the truth.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.

Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...

Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

No valentines from the cats again.

I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

Live from the heart of yourself