It takes an aeon to shift position, get comfortable, let alonecreate a wave in this fishbowl full of glue.- from the poem 'Critical Mass

I'm afraid of freedom, it feels like some drunk guy could show up and burn my dacha at any moment.

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.