The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.

Huangbo Xiyun

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

every now and then, i worry about people in the third world countries. and then i figure if they all started having sex, their lives would be considerably brighter.

Jodi Picoult

Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.

Leon Trotsky

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

E. W. Howe

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

John Rawls

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

Simon Travaglia

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

Rae Carson

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

Joan Jett

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Barbara Kingsolver

I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.

Ellen DeGeneres

One cannot make plans to acquire happiness; it has to be unbidden and spontaneous only than it can give us peace.

RKSJ