A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

Every single living thing is food to at least one living thing.

We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long a-doing So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.