Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
Fundamentally, as human beings, we're very, very alike and a lot more alike than we think, but we have a tendency to divide the world into them and us. In prison, when people commit a crime and we put them away, they definitely become "them. " We don't want to deal with it because they have chosen to step out of society, so we're going to keep them out. Even if they serve their time, we're going to make sure that, for the rest of their lives, they're going to be branded. I don't know how to do it in a different way, but I think it clearly doesn't work.
We all would like to think that we would never, in a million years, have a glass of wine and get behind the wheel of a car, but it could happen, and then you could run a red light.
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.
The highest thing one can do in literature is to succeed in saying that thing which one meant to say. There is nothing better than that - to make the world see your thoughts as you see them.
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.