I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.