The first step in solving a problem is admitting there is a problem to be solved.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

You dirty rat...

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

So sad, so fresh the days that are no more.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I'm not a bona fide human being.

I put the hamburger on the assembly line.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.