I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.''Everybody's got a past, ' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.

[S]omething had to change. Because I had changed.

I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.

You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal

Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

For me, music was an age/time/place thing. One day I woke up and realized I was done. That was many years ago.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?