We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?

Maybe, because all these good people loved me enough to help me, maybe I wasn't quite as bad as I felt. Maybe there was a part of me that was worthy of their love.

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

If there were any justice in the world people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change.

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into.

What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower.