All societies are historical.

Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

All confessions are Odysseys.

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others.

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change. No longer than a decade at most.

When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?

We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it's a metaphorical battle all of the time.

I know that I could make this world peaceful and calm, if I only could get my hands on a hydrogen bomb.