I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

God is everything in every where.

Life is a sacred spark of divinity.

With you I understood that pleasure is not something you give or take. It's a way of giving yourself and calling forth the gift of self from another person.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

Turkey is doing an enormous amount in the refugee question, but it can't continue to pay for everything by itself. That is why we have to talk to Turkey about money.

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.