Chirren [children] is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him

The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.

Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.

If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want.

Whatever you abuse will return to hunt you. Cultivate the self discipline to use everything within the environment God created them for.

Id like to be a lion... they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

During a national crisis, we as a nation become a single community and no one should take advantage of a crisis.