I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren’t that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn’t have any money to do anything.

Sometimes I wish that there were a way to let people know that just because I live in a world without rules, and in a life that is lawless, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt...

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people’s recollections, which change with time.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

If you don’t listen, you’re never gonna learn.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

They talk themselves out of everything else, there’s nothing else but you and the information you want, and they give it to you.

This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It’s invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

So far, at least, I haven’t found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser’s country, since these are of value...

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

That’s the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to...

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

I was a terrible English student.

Today’s audience knows more about what’s on television than what’s in life.

Where it all will end, knows God.

When part of what you’re trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the...

I’ve had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Whatever limited observational skills I have, I use them best and most when I find myself in a strange place, slightly uncomfortable.

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.

Someone has to stand up for wimps.

When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing...

I don’t pretend to tell people how to live their lives other than to do the right thing and work hard. Everything else should take care of itself.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these...

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make...

Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

I suppose no man becomes a pocket hunter by first intention.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We...

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I’d like to do that kind of work someday, but for...

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.