The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Nothing left to do but smile.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Don’t do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

I’ll be emotionally disturbed for as long as it takes

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so