Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Civilization is sterilization.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

People say fish is good for a diet. But fish should never be cooked in butter. Fish should be cooked in its natural oils - Texaco, Mobil, Exxon .