"Blast Tyrant is one of the best rock albums ever created. I truly believe that. I also believe that if you listen to the first half of that record and you don't like it, then you are a fucked up demon set loose on the earth trying to lower the standards of all right minded people. I wish I was kidding when I say that, but I'm not."

"What is to be the nature of the domestic legislation of the future? I cannot help thinking that it will be more directed to what are called social subjects than has hitherto been the case.—How to prom…"

"I think it’s a good reality check to grow up in New York, because every day you’re exposed to people from all parts of the world, people that don’t have any money, people who live on the street, rich …"

"It was a Sunday doubleheader in Cleveland. Mickey's on third base, and they hit a ball to medium right field to me. I would get back on a ball like that, and then I'd come in and take it on the run an…"

"It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature…"