He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Wisdom isn’t expensive, but ignorance is.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

People acceptin' me for me, people lovin' my music was big for me.

You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.