What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked. Friendship is Love without his wings! That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require. Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. It's like Branson. When I went to Branson there was only 4 acts in there. Now, you can't count 'em. There's so many theatres now, that only the strong will survive. I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil. Independent minded girls that are naked sounds like a great start to something. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway. I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented. So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm. I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention. And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me. Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things. As a child, I was always playing some generic child. Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were. I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.