My friend worked at a record store in Burlington and I really liked R.E.M. and a lot of music, but I didn't go to see much. I was 16, so I wasn't in bars unless I knew the band and could get in.

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

As with any music that one feels quite close to, I'm very critical, too. I care a lot. I pay a lot of attention.

Take your current success as the beginning of your journey and you will keep breaking your own records.

Saphira: The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. But options are before you

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.