"... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it."

-- Craig L. Rice

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“I got in my car and followed [Marlon Brando] down to Chinatown, and got about twelve shots. Brando called me over and said, What else do you want that you don't have already? And I said, I'd like a picture without the sunglasses. He said no and punched me right in the jaw, It was so fast I didn't see it coming. Blood was gushing out of my mouth. I drove to Bellevue. The jawbone and five teeth were broken... To this day he has scars on his knuckles from my teeth.”
“Thereâ€™s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members itâ€™s no longer Black Sabbath.”
“I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.”
“Football, bloody hell!”
“We are morphing as we go through things, and then we're presented with the notion of a soul. A soul implies more than just the preservation of energy. Science will tell you that you can explode a person, but their energy still exists - even if they're decimated, the universe will preserve that in the form of heat or whatever it is. So there's a preservation of our molecules or whatever, but is there a preservation of a thing that's called the self if that thing is not actually ever one thing?”
“If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.”
“The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.”
“Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over.”

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