I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.