In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

You have got a good side? I have. I just do not use it too often. My bad side is so much more fun.

You’ve got a good side?”“I do. I just don’t use it too often. My bad side’s so much more fun.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less.

It has been said that work is the highest form of play.

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.

The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.