Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.