Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

But I didn't even make you work for it. I just jumped you like a cat in heat.

If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us.

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

We're always hardest on our own work, I guess.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.

Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.