Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

Cynicism is a form of cowardice, a failure of courage to hope.

Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends.

No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.