The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

I go to sleep happy. I wake up excited because I give the truth.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.

Not bombs nor my broken heart can take away from me walking barefoot with you in jasmine June through the Field of Mars.

I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs.

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.