Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.

Better a live dog than a dead lion.

Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.

- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong.

We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.

The perfect classroom is Paris.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.