I was told that this road would take me to the ocean of death, and turned back halfway. Since then crooked, round-about, godforsaken paths stretch out before me.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit

In the dark you hear movement—a squeak, a hiding. The heart opens, closes, opens.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

It's hard for a hit to be bad for your career.

I was lucky because logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.