Put me on the train, send me back to my home — Moby

"Why cant a Democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning The catcher in the rye and Harry Potter?"

"For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say youre an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.Then you go to an anti-immigration website chat room and ask, "Whats all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?"

"Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book."

"I got a phone call from Ricky Martins management asking me if Id like to do something with him in Florida around the winter music conference. My answer is as follows: I would consider doing something with Ricky Martin if and only if he publicly apologizes for performing at George Ws inauguration and if he confirms that when he danced next to George W. Bush at the inauguration he could smell brimstone and that George W. Bush is in fact the spawn of Satan. So if Ricky Martin goes on national television to confirm that George W. is the spawn of Satan then I will perform with him. Otherwise no deal. And only if we can do a cover of In a Gadda-da-vida, but The Simpsons version, In the garden of Eden (to which reverend Lovejoy responds ""that sounds like rock and or roll""). And, by the way, Im a pretty easygoing young-ish person, so if you ever see me walking down the street just stop me and say hello. Were all in the same boat, right? of course youll have to make it past my phalanx of security guards who are all ex-NFL linebackers, and the cadre of dobermans, and the perma-moat that I wear thats filled with electric eels and vicious sea monkeys. So if you see me just come and say hi. Im normal."

"Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not."

"Better a loving single parent family than a conventional family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue."

"Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is, therefore, the power of humanizing nature, of infusing the thoughts and passions of man into everything which is the object of his contemplation."

"The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive."

"I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought."

"Who made you glorious as the gates of heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flower Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God! God! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God!"

"All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair — The bees are stirring — birds are on the wing — And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing."

"Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former."