The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.

What we need is equality without conformity.

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.