And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new

Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Never tell your wife she's bad in bed. She'll go out and get a second opinion.

The finest landscape in the world is improved by a good inn in the foreground.

What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.