The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

If sacred places are spared the ravages of war... then make all places sacred. And if the holy people are to be kept harmless from war... then make all people holy.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.

Ever heard the story about a cat that accidentally caught a mouse in his sleep? Me neither

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.