I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.

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.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

True hope has no room for delusion.

Write your own story, preferably in tattoos.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

Today, peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.