Oh, how daily life is.

And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

Oh how daily life is. (Ah que la vie est quotidienne.)

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States but I never saw the Government of the United States.

The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

My life won't be a series of either/ors - musician or actor, rock or country, straitlaced or rebellious, this or that, yes or no. The real choices in life aren't that simple.

Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.