Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.