For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Being that can be understood is language.

Nothing exists except through language.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

Parsely is gharsley.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous he is free from anxiety being wise he is free from perplexity being brave he is free from fear.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.

I can be pushed just so far.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do something, it just happens.