I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Travel means a lot of learning experience to me".

I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sins, Like wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead. What sort of dead do you usually date?

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

Well, my work is done here. Thanks, boys!

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.