"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan."

"Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."

"To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery."

"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run."

"The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization."

"My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn't have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh."

"From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'"

"When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place."