My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

Kids without dads are desperate and jealous. Those with dads can be uppity and sharp.

I thought about adults. I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped in adult bodies...

You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

The older I get, the less I remember.

As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.