I must play the instrument I've got.

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.

Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.