All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she's acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I'm flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned. I go flying so high, when I'm stoned.