"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."

"The law always limits every power it gives."

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."

"What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!"

"Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time."

"It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before."

"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life."