"I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive."

“I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.”

“It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.”

Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.

“History is the daughter of time.”

Source : Lucien Febvre (1982). “The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century: The Religion of Rabelais”, p.2, Harvard University Press

“Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music.”

“I've spent my whole life pushing sugar. People aren't going to stop eating sugar-we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. When you're with a group of people and you take a bite of a really great dessert, the conversation just stops. We don't want to get rid of those moments.”

“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”

“James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.”