When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.

The Lord is my Saviour.

Blood might be thicker than water, but love was the most powerful magic of all.

...sin is often the attempt to meet a legitimate need in an illegitimate way.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.