Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

I don't go too fast, but I go pretty far.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

We are all descended from monsters.

In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder." We are the keepers of tradition.