I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.

Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?