If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.

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.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.

Love rarely waits for permission.

You're not born with a walk like that. You have to earn it.

Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.