Swans SING before they DIE - 'twere no BAD THING should certain persons die before they sing.

I've been WRITING STORIES SINCE I was a KID. I LOVE writing stories.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make SURE that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you DEAL with it RATHER than have it drown you.

The FIRST STEP to ETERNAL LIFE is you have to DIE.

We tend to think of divorced or complicated FAMILIES as a modern invention, and that is not at all TRUE. You only have to READ the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with NEW PARENTS.

Men PASS in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We LOVE them; they are BRAVE, proud, beautiful, clever; and they DIE almost at once. They die so soon that our HEARTS are continually racked with pain.

You don't STUMBLE upon your HERITAGE. It's there, just WAITING to be explored and SHARED.

All things are perceived in the LIGHT of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is SIMPLY reality seen with the eyes of LOVE.

I WOULD RATHER be POLITICALLY DEAD than hypocritically immortalized.

Back then, I didn't have a big organization AROUND me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had EXTRA TIME on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't ENOUGH time.

As a young TEENAGER I looked desperately for things to read that MIGHT EXCUSE me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might CONFIRM an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

There is no RESPECT for OTHERS WITHOUT HUMILITY in one's SELF.

I don't REALLY GET RECOGNISED very MUCH.

The FACT that LOGIC cannot satisfy US awakens an ALMOST insatiable HUNGER for the irrational.

Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can OVERCOME two DECADES of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore FAITH in GOVERNMENT.