If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

The greatest war we fight is the one within ourselves.

Every person gets negative things, they learn from those negative things, and you become a positive person.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

I want to be different from anyone ever.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

I am vegetarian, though, and so is my family.

It's a pretty frantic world that we live in

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old, it is easier still.