Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.

Science began to be powerful when it began to be cumulative, when observers began to preserve detailed records, to organize cooperating groups in order to pool and criticize their experiences.

Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.

God save me from idealists.

It's not that I write songs that are easy to get but I don't think there's a lesson that I'm trying to teach in any of my songs. There's not a moral at the end of it.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

Well all tai chi has the martial aspect to it, a lot of people don't know, a lot of the teachers won't show it, or they do show it but you don't really learn it, what the application is.

George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.