Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

Often, exactly big complexes force an individual to achieve their big goals and massive success.

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

But, said Alice, the the world has absolutely no sens, who's stopping us from inventing one?

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.