Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain.

I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.