Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.