"I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace."

“A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.”

“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”

“Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see.”

Source : "McCartney's Big Apple sports dreams". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. December 28, 2010.

“Times change and we should change and grow, and yet be proud of our legacy.”

Source : "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

“Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that begins its life in the water, but ends it on land - already, that's pretty weird. But, also, a lot of them are incredibly tiny and look wildly improbable. They have funny little toes, they stretch their throats into weird bubble shapes when they croak, and some of them are poisonous to the touch. I think kids from the twenty-second century might mythologize amphibians the way kids today mythologize dinosaurs.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.”

“People who wear glasses, without them they always look unfocused, vulnerable. Out in the open. A layer removed.”

“Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.”