I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

It's sad that children don't spend enough time looking around and being amazed by what's in the real world.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

I have the brain of a German Shepherd and the body of a 16-year-old boy; they’re both in my car and I want you to see them

I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing.

As long as we avoid the creative, we are condemned to reaction.

What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.