Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

My face on every coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved. My flag is forever waved, by the grateful people I have saved.

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

I must serve the Great Master, God.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me.I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

The HBS logo shone high above, a surrogate sun for the overcast day.

This is the genius of America: dreams fulfilled help others launch new dreams.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

There will be water if God wills it.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.