People know more about baseball players contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our childrens lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, Do you want to bring a child into this world? Thats pretty dire.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

It's not like I'm looking to describe something that's only true of my own circumstances. It's beyond. It's way inside, you know. It's reaching inside to something that you have in common with many.

How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?