I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.