It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

She had put on make-up in a colour scheme that indicated she might be colourblind.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

Consider this a fair warning.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Yoko had 10 years and I had 10 years and I would rather have had the 10 years I had than the ones she did. I had the raw talent and the raw human being, before the sycophants arrived.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.