Great causes and little men go ill together.
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule of law was corrupted at that moment. Then came Vietnam, and marijuana, which clearly shouldn't be illegal, but is. If you go to jail for ten years in Texas when you light up a joint, who are you? You're a lawbreaker. It's just like Prohibition was. When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society, you see?
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
The people on the train with me don't know it, but in my head I'm dancing.
The Psalms are the voices of the church.
Whoever controls the territory possesses it.