"Think of loyalty as a kind of relational glue."

“The mood was terrible. You could see it in everybody's eyes. The body language was just defeated. When they put me in I was hoping I could give us some energy and try to bring us back.”

“Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”

“The way I make art, the way a lot of people make art, is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important.”

Source : Interview by Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

“Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.”

“Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.”

“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”

“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”

Source : Neal Cassady (2005). “Collected Letters, 1944-1967”, p.145, Penguin

“Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.”