The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

We're gonna rock around the clock.

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

Never underestimate the power of Faith because when nothing seems impossible, Faith makes it possible.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Not all tongues that wag cohabit with a brain.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

All wars are waged against children

Religion is a fascinating black hole to me.

One must be as clear as one's natural reticence allows one to be.