You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

The gods are blind and men see only what they wish.

Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to.

The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won’t complain about her feminine energy.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.