Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

We make choices and are in turn made by them.

When you live by the demands and supply of life, your life becomes easily predictable.

An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life.

I would not have gone into Iraq.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.