I am astounded at how long it takes to discover... for the first time, the things I have learned... over and over again all my life.

Any day of the week I would choose to be "out" with others and in touch with myself... then to be "in" with others and out of touch with myself.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

Not since Cassandra Wilson's Blue Light Til Dawn has a vocalist cast such an entrancing spell as Valerie Joyce does on New York Blue.

I call upon those who love freedom to stand with us now. Together we shall achieve victory.

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die someday. So if you like, remember me.

No one is who they pretend to be

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

I want to be able to make westerns like Akira Kurosawa makes westerns.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.