Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.

'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.

You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.