I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

You can work hard, But if you don't work smarterYou 'll work hard for the rest of your life.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.

Only when I focus on the holiness and glory of God am I able to see myself with accuracy.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.