If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

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.

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.