Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can.

I like rock & roll, and I don't like much else.

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.

If The Beatles or the 60's had a message, it was 'Learn to swim. And once you've learned - swim!

I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker.