You never see a smiling runner.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.