I want to thank you for the profound joy I've had in the in the thought of you.

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

I really like to put my name on everything, so my roommate doesn't steal it. It's really a throwback to that.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.