If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.

If you do not have inner peace, you may not be able to find it anywhere.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

The song succeeds or fails just based on whether you argue your point successfully.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.