The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.