Lovers are not snails

I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

Consciousness is not a bunch of thoughts or a certain level of understanding. Consciousness is a dimension that is beyond our physicality.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea.

...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.