I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

You know, you don't please everybody.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

He’s suffering from Politician’s Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

One is always at home in one's past...

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

The crazy thing is that I really wasn't under any pressure. My contract wasn't going to expire until the end of 2008, and everyone was satisfied with me. But I wasn't. I always wanted to improve.

Arrogance is an utterly appropriate weapon to use against a hostile world, a world in which arrogance is feared and respected, even if, like mine, it's only feigned.

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.