I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.

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.

I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.

Truth does not cease to exist because no one believes it.

May you be spurred into action, not just by what you read - but all your Soul is willing to share.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.