True love has no object. It is a state of being.
Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.
As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you're gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headachesmake you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it. . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit. . . . this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.