I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.

God strengthen and brighten your paths.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar.

I didn't know the demonsthat walked across your memory.They came from the dustwhen you were at peacein your grave.

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.

I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!

Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.