I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.

A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

I try not to release songs that I'm not proud of, and even songs that I don't connect with.

Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said, 'Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country actually.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.