One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

A student might ask, how long will it take to learn guitar..., the answer is, as long as you live - that short.

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.