I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I never wanted to leave the Smashing Pumpkins. That was never the plan.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

I was part of a generation that changed the world - and it was taken over by poseurs.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Compliments and criticism are all ultimately based on some form of projection.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

I would say don't worry about what you should do, do whatever you can. And seek companions with shared values.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.