"I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid."

“I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga!”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.”

“It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.”

“The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.”

“You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.”

Source : "Making the case for a generation". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 1999.

“Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.”

“If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

“Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.”