I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

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.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

The strength of your growth depends on your leader. If the person you are taking counsel from is weaker than you, you are on your way down.

We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.