The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: "Who is it?" "Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.

Under the spell of alcohol your differences recede.

I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

I guess you were not my friend then, that's okay. I can see my true self, I can see yours, now. I guess that you did not look hard enough at mine. Or you would never have let me go.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.