You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

there is no such thing as hell but you can make it if you try

If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It's a gang mentality.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common man.

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

The Fed's independence is critical.

I've never really cared much about money. I've got enough to live on. And it's not like I live in a fancy house, it's not like I own a car, and it's not like I ever go on holiday.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

There's nothing that defines who you are more than boundaries, whether you cross them or not, in every aspect of your life, and horror is a really great boundary.

Some people have said Brother Khalid was a villain, but we know he was a victim in a world that is evil. Racism and injustice are the real villains here.

True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.