Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.
I once was the walrus, now I'm John.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives
I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down. . . Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced. . . because these things are unreliable and fleeting.
He's a cousin of some friends of the Lightwoods or something. He's nice. I promise. " "Nice, bah. He's gorgeous. " Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things. " "No. You can't have him. " "Why not? Do you like him?" Magnus's eyes gleamed. "He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.
This is what I will forever hold against men in general: that they have carefully selected out and inoculated intelligent women with a sense of specialness: you're not like other girls. Damn, for a woman, you sure are bright as hell!
Sculptures permit me to create real volume One can touch the forms, one can give them smoothness, the sensuality that one wants.