In the past, there has been a stigma surrounding community colleges, where they were seen as a less viable option because they are not four-year universities. I know differently and so do the millions of people across the country who have received an affordable, quality higher education at community college.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead – and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

[Stratocaster vs Les Paul] It’s a totally different animal. One is for very subtle and, I would say, more musical things that you can distract and abuse. You can’t do that with a Les Paul. It’s too delicate. It’s got a very delicate tone; most people don’t ever realize that because they are plugged into monstrous amplifiers which completely, instantaneously covers up the unique sound quality it has. All those years of development go straight out the window when you overload the amp.

I’m married, you know. I love my husband and I have a child.

When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

I don’t want to cover up anymore. Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

I don’t expect to retire. Every man must work, that’s his natural destiny.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

There is a big difference between surrendering and knowing that enough was enough.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

If you are good, life is good.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.