I don't think I have a signature.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves

So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

Twist my Body like the Exorcist.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

I listen to everything from jazz to reggae to heavy metal and I kind of combine everything to make something different

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.