I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'

I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself.

As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty.

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.