There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

And our dreams are who we are.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you gonna look me in the face and tell me that?

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.