I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Takes birth in me, also, dies in debris.I am a Potpourri.A mix of dead petals, effusing divine fragrance.Walking on the journey, of controversy.I am a Potpourri.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time I was twelve years old I owned my own home.

So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.

God grants an easy death only to the just.

I need one good honky tonk angel to turn my life around.