The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home.  Sometimes someone is.

Never, ever, regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear.  There is too much evidence to the contrary.  When we cease believing this, the music will surely stop.  The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself.  My name is not mine, it's theirs.  It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts.  I feel like an old dog I know.  He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food

An artists job is to see.  And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen.  To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending fieldtrip

"barb-wire lean and barb-wire mean --- he chews nails and spits rust"

How will you know someone really loves if they only meet your expectations and not your needs