Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.