Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

A bloody guy in overalls, wearing a straw hat, began chasing us. He held a saw, pointing it at us. We were gonna die! --The Body By the Tree

Miracles happen, lyrical inhalation of poetry, you will not stop my words from breathing.

Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.