Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth...

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

For at the end of the day, prosperity goes beyond material pleasures.

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

The history of jazz for the last 45 years has come through the Monterey Jazz Festival stages. I think there's developed a legacy and an aura around the festival.

Life is too serious and precious for it to be left to chance. You have to make it your project to discover your purpose in life. You have to be intentional about it.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

Patriotism is a passion which induces hot youth to rush forth to get shot and half shot, while sober, conservative age waves the flag and corrals the contracts.

Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.