Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic, and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.