(Fred Astaire)
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
(Gandhi)
The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.
(Robert Heinlein)
Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.
(Marian Wright Edelman)
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
(Buddha)
In war there is no second prize for the runner–up.
(GEN Omar Bradley)
To train a child your life is better than anything you say.
(Anonymous)
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words, or poetry or whatever. I hardly think we're the only people writing lyrics with that frame of reference or that frame of mind, but our fusion of styles in this framework is interesting. Most people can't tell now who wrote what, and to make it more confusing, I wrote some lyrics that Kim sings, and vice versa. I like that blurring of identities within the band, because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
(Thurston Moore)