No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

Everyone has troubles. Finding yourself in the same boat with everyone else is the first sign of spirituality.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.

I don't want a pickle, just want to ride on my motorsickle

We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

I don't want a pickle, I just want ride on my motorcikle. I don't want to die, I just want a ride on my motorcy........cle.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

I was not a very fearful kid, really.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

A person like me... isn't even worth the tip of a toe. I can't even compare to half.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

Much more than memoir; it's history.