I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

John Kerry says the 'W' in George W. Bush stands for 'Wrong.' But he still can't explain what John Kerry stands for.

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

A game is always won through a mistake.