Wooing a woman is like fishing

Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart.

The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

In America, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

I try all night to play a pretty note.

When anything bad happens to me or someone I know, I always know who to blame. My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.