Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja.

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I had peanut butter once. It was awful.

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French. Yet the dogs in question never seem to emerge yelping on the horizon.

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

Always persevere, always have a great perspective, and always have great purpose in your life

Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.