If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

We all need each other. Sons of god need daughters of god, daughters of god need sons of god.

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

If you're going to miss 'em, miss 'em quick.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.