I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside.

The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."~ Glenn Aparicio Parry

Even the blind man can see the beauty as it rides upon the sound of a voice, edge itself between the lines on his fingerprints to be spread upon the smooth snippets of life he touches.

When I was growing up I never babysat. I was considered to 'punk rock' to be trusted with kids.

Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.

Squirrel brains make you smart.

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

The blues is a low down achin' chill.

They say that I have no hits and that I'm difficult to work with. And they say that like it's a bad thing.