I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

Some nights, we were a city of two.

Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed

Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.

The problem is we don't fight on the same level. We have laws that protect everybody.

Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way