When everything is a law, nothing is a law.

It is better to fail at perfection than it is to succeed at mediocrity.

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

I wouldn't trust any evidence that the Russians suggest that they could provide.

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.