An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
There is no rank in sacrifice.
I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.
Because now, you know, it's going to be a number of years yet before we have our own new boosters and new spacecraft to go to our own International Space Station and proceed with all the research that we spent $100 billion putting up there to give us that research capability for the future for people right here on Earth.