How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head. . . that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft. . . it's second nature.
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.
In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
A critic without a good eye is a eunuch in a harem.