I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often but I'm well preserved.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite.

Muslims are not compatible with the Australian way of life because they have a different region code

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

I am not born to just become an actor

We are not so brazen as to believe that we can perfectly calibrate valuation; determining risk and return for any investment remains an art not an exact science

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.