In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

I have composed too much.

The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Mozart is sunshine.

I awoke with an insatiable desire to end my life.

The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions,

It is a blessed gift to witness the beauty of each day.

May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Peace is not a dream; peace is an option! You either choose peace and prove that you are clever and angelic, or choose war proving that you are stupid and devilish!

The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

Identity is this incredible invisible force that controls your whole life. It's invisible, like gravity is invisible, but it controls your whole life.