I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking.

Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings.

San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.

while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

But I think it's undeniable that the Times is a liberal paper.

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had.

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis in Israel

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.