The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one

The pain of patience is better the pleasure of sin.

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

My older brother was involved in the folk movement. We would gather every weekend in Washington Park. The folk songs were so important to my reality.

It's just that the grape has me down.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

I'm a free soul who hates paying attention to things I am not interested in. Consequently, I have rarely been comfortable in the role of 'employee.'