If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get

There is a rationale for every action.

Actually I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Comes down to your training, your heart, your mind, your soul, and who wants it more.

Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.