Sometimes Im tired, sometimes Im shot. — Billy Joel

"This is the time to remember Cause it will not last forever. These are the days to hold on to Cause we wont, although well want to. This is the time, But time is gonna change. Youve given me the best of you But now I need the rest of you."

"Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But Im talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. Im in a New York state of mind."

"Oh, she takes care of herself She can wait if she wants Shes ahead of her time Oh, and she never gives out And she never gives in She just changes her mind."

"And the waitress is practicing politics As the businessmen slowly get stoned Yes theyre sharing a drink they call loneliness But its better than drinking alone."

"You might have heard I run with a dangerous crowd We aint too pretty we aint too proud We might be laughing a bit too loud But that never hurt no one. Come on Virginia show me a sign Send up a signal Ill throw you the line. The stained-glass curtain youre hiding behind Never lets in the sun. And only the good die young."

"If I traveled all my life And I never get to stop and settle down Long as I have you by my side Theres a roof above and good walls all around Youre my castle, youre my cabin and my instant pleasure dome I need you in my house cause youre my home."

"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."

"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."

"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"

"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"