The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide

Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

The better the script is the more you can commit, but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.

I don't allow challenges to trip me up.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.