The vine-stock bears fruit as long as it is attached to its stem; apart from that, no.
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.
Always take one last look in a full-length mirror before leaving the house.