I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.