I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

I'd sneer and tell him he's got the cerebral finesse of an amoeba and delight in his squint of confusion.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony but organically I am incapable of a tune.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

I don't sign for white people.

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

When you have the opportunity to make music with great musicians, take it. That's it. That's the only reason I need, really.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.