For this taboo, retribution would soon knock my doorBut, I still wouldn't let that hold my feet to move on anymore.

Coal that bears that pressure meets a diamond.

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but physics' challenge is to link our consensus reality to our external reality.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.