Everything I own can fit in two suitcases and a foot locker.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Death is a very important part of life.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

It's not so much wanting to die, but controlling that moment, choosing your own way.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

Everybody picks up on the sensational things, but no one really gets it.

The white people always want to fight someone and they always get the dark-skinned people to do the fighting.

Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

At first I didn't dig country.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

Congress is back in season.

People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.