If you really dig a chick, you should talk to her, not steal her picture.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have - at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.

Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.

Don't object so much, you'll live longer.