My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Your smile carries my heart away every time that I see you.

For beautiful success, serve with love and serve with courage.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

Save myself from death is that it?! Is that why I've come here?! I'm not afraid to die! At times I've welcomed death!

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?