What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

It is alright to trust. But trust comes with responsibility.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

Women hold up the other half of the sky.