The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.

Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.

Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Ah, sleep, clothe me in thy velvet cloak.

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.

There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.

The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

My best ideas come when I distance myself from day-to-day operations. It gives me more focus.

To vote or not... it really doesn't matter it = 1 vote... as for the others with one vote somebody could beat you.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

Art is a protest against death.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.

If you're doing something new there is always a sense of fear or foreboding, but you're in new ground and you have to get out your machete and cut a new path.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.