Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.You are the way and the wayfarers.And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.

Source Unknown

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.

Lucinda Williams

What a woman says to her lover should be written on air or swift water.

Catullus

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

Sugar Ray Robinson

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ethel Watts Mumford

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one.

Ann Landers

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Gunther Grass

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Marcel Proust